With Germany upset about how WWI ended and Japan upset about a lack-of-access to much-needed natural resources, another war sent the world into chaos between 1939-1945. Stories in this collection are about some of those events.
The Japanese Navy used Type A Midget Submarines in their attack on Pearl Harbor. This cutaway drawing illustrates the midget sub.
Minoru Genda was the Japanese officer who planned the Pearl Harbor attack. He was later given America's highest honor awarded to foreigners.
CommanderMinoru Genda plannedthe devastating air strike on Pearl Harbor. His revolutionary thinking was to make airplanes (which could drop torpedoes...
Minoru Yashui was the first of three Japanese-Americans to challenge the U.S. federal government for violating the civil rights of Japanese-Americans ...
Ending on June 4, "Operation Dynamo" was a major naval rescue mission to save Allied forces from annihilation at the hands of Germany during the late ...
Margaret Utinsky referred to her underground network, which helped prisoners of war at Cabanatuan, as Miss "U.
This image depicts the back-cover of a recent edition of Mrs. Dalloway, one of Virginia Woolf's most-famous novels.
After the war, POWs who had been incarcerated in Japanese camps all told the same story about Mutsuhiro (Matsuhiro) Watanabe - whom prisoners called "...
This sketch of Naoetsu Camp 4 - created from memory, after the war was over - is from "A Bridge Across the Pacific Ocean" (a Japanese-language book).
B-29s, flying over Japan, dropped napalm-filled cluster bombs known as the M-69.
An important Norwegian seaport, whose deep-water harbor is used to transport Swedish-mined iron ore, Narvik was captured by Germany during World War I...
Louis Zamperini and his crew mates aboard their B-24, called Super man, attacked Japanese-controlled Nauru on April 21, 1943.
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