A 7-inch gun on the sunken Japanese carrier IJN Kaga. (Vulcan Photo) The Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel, owned and operated by the late Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc., continues to locate historic shipwrecks ...

Key Point: A single torpedo can be a death knell to even the most advanced of aircraft carriers. Six torpedoes from the U.S. Navy submarine USS Albacore headed toward the Japanese aircraft Taiho as ...

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Key point: The Shinano was poorly built and badly designed. Over the last hundred years, the navies of the world have constructed, operated, and taken to war hundreds of aircraft carriers. Some ...

Located on the Pacific coast of Aomori Prefecture, the small city of Misawa has long been defined by its aviation heritage. In 1931, it was the takeoff point for the first successful nonstop ...