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Operation Barney: Revenge for a Lost Submarine

April 23, 2018 ·  
Today, the Bowfin submarine is a museum ship and memorial park, one of the Pearl Harbor Historic Sites. Launched one year to the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, she spent the next two and a half years living up to her nickname, the Pearl Harbor Avenger. Her ninth—and final—World War II patrol was as […]
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Balloons of War: The Japanese Fu-Go

March 20, 2018 ·  
During the course of World War II, all sides had their own secret projects intended to give them a strategic edge. The United States was working on a massive bomb that could put an immediate end to the conflict. In Japan, researchers were hard at work on Fu-Go, a unique weapon that, on the surface, […]
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The Long and Eventful Reign of Hirohito

March 13, 2018 ·  
To many in the Japanese leadership in 1941, there appeared to be only one way to get the United States to back off and allow their expansion across Chinese territories: a military attack to destroy the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor. The plan drawn up by Isoroku Yamamoto had the approval of most […]
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Kido Butai - Japanese Carrier-Centered Mobile Force

April 18, 2013 · Randy Miller
Kido Butai is the name of the Japanese strike force that attacked Pearl Harbor. The name Kido Butai literally means "mobile force". The naval feat of sending Kido Butai undetected across the Pacific to within 230 miles of Oahu is an incredible story. The concept of employing Kido Butai to preemptively attack the US Pacific […]
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