SBS

Japan within Australia: Pearl divers play their roles in Australian society, history, and TV animation series

Still from ABC's TV animation series 'Shaun Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia.' Insets (from left): Director Noel Cleary, a helmet used by Japanese divers in the 1870s (Kushimoto Town in Wakayama Japan) ...
Hawaii News Now

Battle-scarred Japanese dive bomber helps tell fuller story of Pearl Harbor attack

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - During the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, Imperial Japan used Aichi Dive Bombers to deliver their payloads. The type of aircraft was known as the “Val.” “For the ...
The National Interest

Japan Tried to Attack Pearl Harbor with Mini Submarines

Though Pearl Harbor was obviously a smashing victory for Japan – and a shockingly humiliating defeat for the United States – Hideki Tojo’s victory was not without cost: 29 planes were shot down, five ...
The National Interest

Pearl Harbor Fact: A Handful of American Fighter Pilots Took On Hundreds of Japanese Warplanes

At 7 AM on the morning of December 7, 1941 the U.S. Army Air Force had 152 fighters in the fifteenth and eighteenth Pursuit Group deployed for air defense of Hawaiian island of Oahu, and 57 bombers ...
WRAL

Years before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan sank a US warship in China

(CNN) — It’s a day seared into America’s collective memory: December 7, 1941. The day Imperial Japanese warplanes launched a devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, sinking or damaging 19 ...
UPI

U.S. commemorates 82nd anniversary of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Dec. 7 (UPI) --The United States on Thursday commemorated the 82nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, with solemn ceremonies planned in Hawaii and elsewhere for several days. The day ...