From late January through late March 1941, there was a series of secret meetings between representatives of the United States Navy, the United States Army and the United Kingdom, held in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the secret meetings was to determine how the United States and Great Britain could together best defeat the Axis […]
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First U.S. Blood Spilled Before Pearl Harbor Attack
In early October 1941 an Ally convoy (SC-48) consisting of 50 merchant ships was traveling through the Strait of Belle Island to the Atlantic Ocean. Due to poor weather conditions 11 of the fifty ships were separated from the others, including the ship carrying the Commodore. The remaining ships stayed on course.
On Oct 15, […]
Battle of Badung Straight
The Battle of Badung Strait was a naval battle in which the Japanese Navy showed their might by defeating a greater force of American-British-Dutch-Australian(ABDA) Command vessels as an attempt to lay the groundwork for conquest of Java.
Fresh from their victories to conquer Borneo and Celebes, the Japanese were eager to begin the next phase of […]
Admiral Yamamoto has been shot down
April 18, 1943 was the day the United States rid herself of Japanese Naval Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. Yamamoto was the Commander in Chief of the Combined Japanese Navy, the man responsible for planning and executing the Japanese surprise attack on Pearle Harbor, December 7, 1941.
After studying in the US at Harvard University […]
Bloody Tarawa
Battles during World War II were fought by whatever means necessary to secure a victory. Technology had improved greatly since World War I. With the distance between islands and the natural and man made barriers on these islands-air strikes and naval bombardments were significant in the Pacific theater.
World War II had several unforgettable battles, battles […]
The Battle of Midway at a Glance
Exactly six months to the day that the raid on Pearl Harbor weakened the United States Pacific Fleet, the Battle of Midway was coming to an end. The American victory of the historically superior Japanese seamen is considered by many to be the most significant moment in American naval history.
In the morning hours of June […]
The United States takes her first Prisoner of War on November 6, 1941
In anticipation of a raid on the South Atlantic by the German Navy, a United States Naval task force commanded by Rear Admiral Jonas H. Ingram, patrolled the waters of the mid-Atlantic beginning in mid-June 1941. The task force included the USS Memphis, the Milwaukee, Cincinnati, and the Omaha (all Light Cruisers), the Somers (from […]