
June 1942 and the Imperial Japanese Navy was supposed to deliver a knockout blow at Midway. Instead, disaster struck. When the first reports reached Admiral…
Captain Mitsuo Fuida, who had led the air attack on Pearl Harbor and survived midway aboard the carrier Akagi, began assembling his account of the…

It was June 1944 on Saipan Island. The air smelled like smoke and gunpowder. The sound of gunfire echoed across the battlefield as a lone…
He smiled at the young faces looking up at him. Students born after the war with no personal memory of the conflict. Never forget this…

I would rather die than be captured by Americans. These were the exact words of Captain Mitsuyo Nakamura moments before his plane was shot down…

4:30 a.m. October 23rd, 1944. Palawan Passage, Philippine Sea. Two American submarines were about to send a coded transmission that would shatter Japan’s final gamble…
The document would never be filed officially. The bureaucracy had collapsed along with organized resistance. But he wrote it anyway, needing to record what he…

The impossible became real. At 10:47 a.m. on April 7th, 1945, nearly 100 American P-51 Mustangs, aircraft Japanese strategists swore could never reach the homeland,…

6 o’clock in the morning, June 4th, 1942, the White House. A single coded transmission from the Pacific would force President Franklin D. Roosevelt to…

When the Americans come for you tonight, use this knife. Not on them, on yourself. The blade passed from woman to woman in the darkness…



