The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one ...

Douglas MacArthur's U.S. Army Forces in the Far East, or USAFFE, had held out for four months against the Imperial Japanese Army, while every other island and nation in the Pacific and Southeast ...

Chiran, now part of this city, hosted an Imperial Japanese Army base that pilots used. Kuwashiro, then a teenager, revered them like gods. She could hardly control her emotions when she thought ...

The relics are grim remnants of the vast tunnel network dug by the Imperial Japanese Army under Shuri-jo castle before the fierce Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Previously closed-off parts of the ...

The National Interest now looks at the Nakajima Ki 27, aka the Type 97, which was the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force’s (IJAAF) main fighter until the official start of World War II.