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 ...

MIDWAY, THE BATTLE THAT DOOMED JAPAN (266 pp.)—Mitsuo Fuchida & Masatake Okumiya—U.S. Naval Institute ($4.50). In the months after Pearl Harbor, the restless aggressors who bossed the Imperial ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was June 4, 1942, and World War II in the Pacific was almost six months old. Pearl Harbor lay far behind, a symbol of heartbreaking disaster; Singapore had fallen, and so had Rangoon, and so had ...