Before there was Qasem Soleimani, there was Admiral Yamamoto. In 1943, the U.S. targeted the exceptionally skilled Japanese commander and killed him in what constituted a precision attack for the ...

This is a historical cinematic simulation made using IL-2 Sturmovik that follows Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Japan's greatest military leader, in his final moments. In World War II, he was a prized ...

Ace in a day' is a rare distinction. Among the earliest American pilots to do so, Jim Swett was credited with seven victories amid a WWII turning point.

In January 1941, however, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto proposed that the decades-old strategy be scrapped in favor of one calling for a first strike on the U.S. Pacific Fleet. It was not a completely ...

Led by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese did indeed hope to conquer the Pacific. Beginning with their attack on Pearl Harbor in December, the Japanese unleashed an assault on other Pacific ...

By then the six-month campaign for the island was over, but Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto been concentrating Japanese naval air strength for Operation I, a counteroffensive in the Solomons and New Guinea.