The Japanese aircraft carrier Unryū was one of the final ships commissioned for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. As the lead ship of her class, Unryū was expected to play a ...

Submarines were a potent weapon during World War II, effectively defeating naval vessels. ... The IJN Submarine I-168 sank the carrier USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Hammann.

The Nautilus is a legend from a bygone era—one with American industrial and defense capabilities the likes of which no modern ...

What is not as well known is the role that submarines played in this epic battle. On the American side, the USS Nautilus played an inadvertent role in the detection of the IJN carrier fleet ...

For Japan, the IJN Soryu, IJN Kaga, and IJN Akagi each rose to meet them. (These are the most important events of World War II: a timeline. Here is a look at all of the naval vessels that fought ...

That record included sinking IJN Taiho Japan’s newest and largest armored aircraft carrier in the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June of 1944. The Navy added that the submarine may have sunk ...

On Dec. 7, 1941, Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser submarines I-1, I-2, and I-3 arrived in the Kaua‘i Channel between O‘ahu and Kaua‘i under orders to conduct reconnaissance and attack ships ...

When the smoke had cleared, three Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) carriers had been sunk (two by U.S. submarines, the other by carrier aircraft), with barely over 30 aircraft left on the decks on the ...

The wreckage of a US Navy submarine that sank the most Japanese warships during World War Two has been found in the South China Sea, some 80 years after it was sunk by enemy forces. The USS Harder ...