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Air War to Doom…
In December 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy was the world’s third largest. It may have been the best. It certainly had the best naval air arm. Of its 1,500 pilots, nearly all had 600 or more hours of flying time, half of it in the combat aircraft they were flying. Most of the formation leaders had as much as 1,500…
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STORM OVER TAIERZHUANG: The Samurai Stalingrad 1938
Japanese troops. Chinese Troops. On January 26, 1938, the Japanese launched their offensive towards Xuzhou and by the evening of March 24, 1938, the Japanese 10th division (with around 25,000 men and around 100 tanks and armored cars) had reached the Taierzhuang area. The Japanese had conquered huge swathes of…
CA Maya
Maya was one of four Takao-class heavy cruisers, active in World War II with the Imperial Japanese Navy. These were the largest and more modern cruisers in the Japanese fleet, and were intended to form the backbone of a multipurpose long-range strike force. These ships were fast, powerful and heavily…
Mounted Samurai – sixteenth century
The famed daimyo takeda shingen introduced the massed cavalry charge and takeda cavalry were feared throughout japan. In the early history of Japan, the samurai were members of the court guard. In the eighth century, with the development of feudal relations, they became vassals of the larger feudal lords, the…
The 1877 Satsuma Rebellion I
The Last Samurai – Best Clips & Soundtracks The last shizoku revolt, the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, was by far the greatest. Unlike the minor insurrections that preceded it, the Satsuma Rebellion is rightly considered a civil war. Commanded by SaigĹŤ Takamori, the Satsuma army fought unrelentingly for seven months. Although…
The 1877 Satsuma Rebellion II
Japanese depiction of the Battle of Shiroyama. SaigĹŤ Takamori can be seen in red and black uniform directing his troops in the upper right corner. Although angered by the students’ rash action, upon learning of the raid on the arsenal, SaigĹŤ met with his lieutenants and authorized preparations for war.…
A Miss-used Submarine Force
Japan’s Sen-Toku I-400 submarine was regarded as such a technological marvel that it was scuttled by U.S. forces after the Second World War to keep it away from the Russians. Shown here is the I-401 sister ship. I-58 Type B3 submarine. On November 10th 1942, I-15, a B1 type submarine,…