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Tag: Pacific Theater

Book Review: A Glorious Way to Die By Russell Spurr

January 3, 2021 Tim Migaki

Published in 1981, Russell Spurr’s “A Glorious Way to Die” chronicles the final sortie of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s pride, the battleship Yamato. Inter-weaved in

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Japanese 16.1″/45 3rd Year Type Gun

September 27, 2020 Tim Migaki

Caveat: The information contained in this post is of a very general nature. More detailed (read: technical) information can be found in the U.S. Naval

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Book Review – The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

April 19, 2020 Tim Migaki

Published in 1951, Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny is set aboard the fictional USS Caine, a destroyer-minesweeper assigned to the Pacific Fleet in WWII. Plot

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Imperial Japanese Navy Ship Naming Conventions

April 12, 2020 Tim Migaki

Note: This post is only covering the naming conventions of the major combatant vessels of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Aircraft Carriers Named after birds, dragons,

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Book Review – The Pearl Harbor Trilogy by Gordon Prange

December 7, 2019 Tim Migaki

Some of us enjoy painting, others enjoy cooking, for Gordon Prange, it was researching and writing about Pearl Harbor. Therefore, in honor of the 78th

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Movie Review – Midway

November 25, 2019 Tim Migaki

*SPOILERS!!! DUH! We’re talking history, here. The story has already been spoiled in tons of books, films, and documentaries. Film reviews are generally not my

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