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Imperial Japan’s Nakajima Ki-27 “Nate” Was No Match for the Flying Tigers
The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one ...
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Japan bolsters anti-air defense with $900 million purchase of US missiles
TOKYO — The United States has approved a $900 million missile sale to Japan, the third major arms purchase of its kind by the ...
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Major Pacific Battles
American and Japanese carriers fought a two-day sea and air battle off the coast of Saipan. It would go down as one of the biggest carrier battles of World War II. Japan lost three aircraft ...
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Japan's Sakurajima volcano erupts, blasting ash 1.2 miles into the air
The Sakurajima volcano in Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture erupted once again on 9. Footage sped-up in post shows plumes of ash ...
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Japan searches for buried WWII bombs at airports after one explodes near plane
Following the incident, Japan's government has decided to ... The US military conducted fierce air raids on it during the war and later captured it. An airfield of the Imperial Japanese Army ...
Japan Airlines Plane Clips Delta Plane at Seattle-Tacoma Airport
No one was injured, but a passenger on one of the planes described “violent shaking” and a “really loud crunching sound.” ...
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Army veteran returns WWII ‘good luck’ flag to Japanese soldier’s family
A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it ...
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U.S. approves sale of additional air-to-surface missiles to Japan
The U.S. government has approved the sale to Japan of additional air-to-surface missiles and related equipment ... capabilities in a major policy shift under the country's war-renouncing Constitution.