Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken ...

On April 9, 1942, the combined American and Filipino forces on the Bataan Peninsula surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Army. The American and Filipino ... Facing overwhelming odds, Major General ...

Chiran, now part of this city, hosted an Imperial Japanese Army base that pilots used ... to continue the war among the military and the general public” as Japan’s prospects looked ...

Perhaps the most valuable contribution made in this book, is Drea's discussion of how the Imperial ... army that could win praise from foreign observers for its logistical efficiency, medical services ...

Q: The Japanese army attacked the Soviet tanks with firebombs ... But we know that there was a debate in Tokyo, at Imperial General Headquarters, in the Imperial war conferences in July and ...

Question: I've heard that the national government is investigating former Imperial Japanese military personnel ... analyzing medical records from former army and navy hospitals since fiscal ...

Decisive sea battle might not even be necessary! Guaranteeing the Imperial Japanese Army unfettered access to battlefields in Korea, north China, and Manchuria—and, as a corollary, keeping the ...

I was researching for facts and dates to write about the 82-day brutal battle to capture Okinawa from the Imperial Japanese Army. In 1945 Easter Sunday was April 1, no joke. It was also D-Day for the ...

A Japanese pilot ... was hopelessly losing. The Imperial Navy founded the Kamikaze Tokko Tai, which translates as Divine Wind Special Attack Corps, and the Imperial Army followed with its own ...