The Midway-class aircraft carrier was instrumental in American naval operations around the world spanning from the end of ...

With three Japanese carriers, the Akagi, Kaga and Sōryū, in flames, the tide of battle seemed to favor the U.S. Navy—but the ...

"An Atlantic Monthly Press book." Preface, dated 1953, refers to corrections checked and collated "since the first edition." -- P. xi. Task organizations containing lists of American and Japanese ...

The day after the main battle at Midway, the Japanese cruiser Mikuma is retreating westward, damaged and trailing oil... With ...

CORAL SEA, MIDWAY AND SUBMARINE ACTIONS (307 pp.)—Samuel Eliot Morison—Little, Brown ($6). THE STRUGGLE FOR GUADALCANAL (389 pp.)—Samuel Eliot Morison—Little, Brown ($6). BATTLE REPORT: VICTORY IN THE ...

On December 7, 1941, planes from six Japanese carriers destroyed the U.S. battleships at Pearl Harbor. Their success opened the way for Japan to conquer Southeast Asia and the Philippines. Yet by ...

More than a month had passed since Midway, and the pattern of the greatest and probably the most decisive naval battle since Jutland still lay in the public mind like an ill-matched jigsaw puzzle, ...