U.S. Navy warships fly battle flags for many reasons, most often when they're entering or exiting their home port or during a training exercise at sea. Usually, battle flags are designed to pay ...

Launched in 1940 and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), the battleship Yamato ... or other necessary systems for winning a modern war, the Americans rely heavily upon their ...

Looking back through history, it’s often difficult to see passed events that have so shaped our modern world. The story of Japan in World War II for example has often left those in the west with an ...

In July 1853, the American naval commander ... of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. While the latter has a dedicated exhibit, the flag with which Bremyer raced to Japan seems lost among other ...

The Maritime Self-Defense Force — Japan’s navy — “will fly ... However, the flag is also associated with Imperial Japan, which waged war in the Pacific during World War II, and with ...

In this episode we discuss Admiral Katsu Kaishū’s transformation of the modern Japanese ... examines the Japanese Navy in the Late Tokugawa Period (1853–1868). Dr Haruo Tohmatsu, our other participant ...

Warships are meant to show the flag, sink enemy ships ... The loss of four Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carriers in the WWII Battle of Midway put a major dent in Japan’s wartime carrier ...