On the morning of May 7, 1942, a Japanese scout aircraft reported a sighting of U.S. carriers in the Coral Sea, prompting an ...
The I-boats were the full-sized submarines of the IJN fleet (meaning they displaced at least 1,000 pounds). The designation does not correspond to the U-boat (Unterseeboot) designation of the German ...
A 7-inch gun on the sunken Japanese carrier IJN Kaga. (Vulcan Photo) The Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel, owned and operated by the late Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc., continues to locate historic shipwrecks ...
Seemingly from a James Bond film or a favorite Science Fiction novel, aircraft-carrying submarines did indeed exist and were deployed by several nations. Its late 1945, at around 03.00 hours off the ...