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
Tag: Pacific War
Operation Ten-Go: The End of the Battleship Yamato
By April of 1945, the Allied push across the Pacific had summarily turned the tide of the war against Imperial Japan. With her surface fleet and naval air forces virtually decimated through attrition from previous campaigns and battles, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attempted one final, desperate push against the Allies at Okinawa with the very symbol of the navy and Japan itself, the Yamato battleship. Unfortunately, they were up against the massive Allied naval forces approaching Okinawa.
Japanese 16.1″/45 3rd Year Type Gun
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
Book Review: Battleship Musashi by Akira Yoshimura
Also known as Build the Musashi! – The Birth and Death of the World’s Greatest Battleship. My basic policy is to not review books that
Book Review: War Plan Orange by Edward Miller
War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945 by Edward Miller Edward Miller spent 20 years diving into archival records to create a
IJN Aerial Attack Tactics
Background Aircraft in the 1920s were largely used in reconnaissance, scouting, and gunfire spotting roles. Their use for fleet air defense was fairly limited. Furthermore,
