The U.S. Navy also converted cruisers into Independence-class light carriers during WWII. However ... (IJN) built a pair of heavy cruisers, Tone and Chikuma, ...

A dramatic eyewitness account of the sinking of Yamato is provided by IJN Capt. Tameichi Hara — who at the time was the skipper of the equally ill-fated IJN light cruiser Yahagi — in the ...

Yamamoto lived to fight another day, but in April 1943 he was assassinated by the U.S. Navy in a mission dubbed Operation Vengeance.After reading Japanese transmissions it was learned that the IJN ...