During the Battle of Midway, a crippled U.S. Army B-26 bomber flew so close over Japan’s flagship Akagi that its crew ...

The Japanese Midway attack force was divided three ways. First, the aircraft carriers would approach from the northwest and knock out the islands’ defenses. Coming in from the west and southwest, the ...

Thirty seconds over Tokyo on April 18, 1942 changed Japan’s attitude from invincible to vulnerable. Looking for a scapegoat, the Japanese Prime Minister, Hideka Tojo, forced the commander of Tokyo’s ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Midway, one of the most important naval battles of World War II. Naval Air Station-Corpus Christi marked the anniversary with a ceremony aboard ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s rare when a movie — especially a war movie — sticks completely to the facts. But that is exactly what happened, with a couple of minor exceptions, in the new “Midway.” In 1976, ...

Editor’s note: Dan King of Orange, an historian working on books about Japanese war veterans, traveled to Midway on June 2 as a volunteer translator for the Japanese and American WWII veterans and ...

In the early hours of June 4, 1942, four Japanese aircraft carriers led the attack on the U.S. base on Midway Island just six months after their attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Unbeknown to the ...

INCREDIBLE VICTORY by Walter Lord. 331 pages. Harper & Row. $5.95. You-are-there books are not present tense journalism or final history, but they are a demanding kind of literary specialty, and can ...