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October 16, 2017
Portrait photos of crew members of a Tiger tank, taken in the summer of 1943 at Kursk, Russia
June 9, 2017
April 14, 2017
First Japanese to fly Zero in America after WW2
A Japanese civilian flight instructor has flown the Mitsubishi A6M3 at Chino airport on Apr. 11. He could be the first person from Japan to fly the legendary warbird in America after World War 2.
October 2, 2015
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September 23, 2014
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January 6, 2014
Today in History : WW 2 - 6th Jan 1942 (72 year ago)
5th Jan 1942 : In Russia, fighting continues along the river Volkhov with no marked advantage to both sides. At Leningrad where cold and hunger claim hundreds of victims each day, preparations are made for the massive evaluation of civilian population accross the frozen Lake Ladoga.
December 10, 2013
Japanese WW2 Secret Weapon Found Off Pearl Harbor - A submarine aircraft carrier ...Whoa!!!
Only days before the 72nd anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, the secret weapon of the Japanese admiral who planned the "Day of Infamy" has been found and positively identified at 2,300 feet in waters off Oahu.
Research teams organized by the University of Hawaii at Manoa made the formal announcement Tuesday that the wreck on the Pacific bottom was the I-400, a submarine aircraft carrier that was the brainchild of Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese Marshal Admiral and commander-in chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II.
Yamamoto was the architect of the carrier attack that killed 2,300 and devastated the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.The attack began 1,351 days of war and triggered major innovations in military technology that included Yamamoto's vision of a fleet of super subs that would hit the Panama Canal and even New York to demoralize Americans and slow or even stop the U.S. advance across the Pacific."Had they been able to affect those strikes, it would have been a different war," said James Delgado, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Maritime Heritage Program.
Yamamoto wanted a fleet of 18 super subs but the I-400 and two sister ships were the only ones ever built, Delgado said. At 400 feet, the Sen-Toku class 1-400 dwarfed all other submarines of the age and its range of 37,500 miles was not matched until nuclear subs were developed in the 1960s.
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