After completing a torpedo attack against the Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi, Muri probably saved his plane and his crew by flying lower than treetop level above the deck of the massive ship.

Japan has acquired U.S.-made F-35B stealth fighter jets that could operate from its aircraft carriers in the future.

Shigeaki Mori, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, was on hand recently to help unveil a plaque in the rural Japanese town of Ikachi, near Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, to commemorate the ...

Wikimedia Commons/Nick Dowling The Battle of Samar Six escort carriers faced down a massive Japanese fleet on October 25, ...