ww2dbaseThese nine submarines prowled the US coast for two weeks. Among them, they made nine more attacks on merchant shipping and destroyed three ships. Realistically, the Japanese goal was not so much to impede American shipping as it was to encourage American panic by bringing the war direc...
attacks occur daily. Likewise, Iraq is still in crisis because of terrorism which followed the meddling of America and other nations and now Syria is being destabilized. On top of this, Libya is now a failed state and the chaos from this country is impacting on northern Mali. Maybe ...
American warships use smoke screens to impede Japanese air attacks in Leyte Gulf during the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines, December 1944. The battle ended in a U.S. victory and led to the eventual recapture of the Philippine Archipelago from Japan. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty...
It was a two-storied terrace house on a back street off the high street, which had been cheaply built on a burned-out area caused by a US air strike in March 1945. His father was running a ramen-noodle shop on the ground floor and living on the first floor. The boy’s family, hi...
The Type 1 Ho-Ki Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) was developed by the Imperial Japanese Army between 1941 and 1942, although it saw mass production later on, in 1944. This vehicle was designed by Hino Heavy Industries along with the Type 1 Ho-Ha half-track, with the purpose of ...
Yoshitoshi (1839 – 1892) New Forms of the Thirty-six Ghosts: Minamoto no Yorimitsu attacks the Earth Spider, 1892. Well, this was meant to be a review of a charming exhibition currently on view at Japan House in London. The exhibition is a beautifully staged display of the history and ...
Pearl Harbor attackAmerican sailors at Ford Island Naval Air Station reacting to the explosion of the USS Shaw during the second wave of attacks on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.(more) At 8:50 am the second wave of the attack began. Less successful than the fi...
ww2dbaseWhen the United States was drawn into the Pacific War began in Dec 1941 with the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, the Philippine Islands, Guam, and other American bases and territory in the Pacific, some Americans were quick to suspect ill-intent from Japanese-Americans. US Army Lieut...
Chukaku-Ha- an ultra-leftist militant group founded in 1957 from the breakup of the Japanese Communist Party; includes a covert action wing; "Chukaku-Ha attacks tend to cause property damage rather than casualties" Anti-Imperialist International Brigade,Japanese Red Army,JRA- a terrorist group or...