In an odd way, the attack on Pearl Harbor actually improved the US military's capability to fight wars on the sea. Many of the ships docked at Pearl Harbor were from the World War I era. They were slow, hard to maintain and poorly equipped. The near total destruction of the fleet mea...
Discovery of sunken vessels (Image: Mikuma shortly before sinking) Because of the extreme depth of the ocean in the area of the battle (more than 17,000 feet/5200 m), researching the battlefield has presented extraordinary difficulties. However, on 19 May 1998, Robert Ballard and a team of...
German tanks gained a fearsome reputation even though the basic doctrines of bewegungskrieg were not more generalized than simply rolling tanks out in front of infantry; the doctrine instead relied on close radio communication between army commanders, the Luftwaffe, and the artillery army to produce ...