The attached two page article was penned in 1947 and recalls the U.S. Navy's earliest struggles for supremacy in the Pacific with the Imperial Navy of the Empire of Japan:
"With the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, United States and Japanese carrier strength became nearly equal. At the same time the news that the Japanese advance was creeping down the Solomons and commencing the construction of an airfield on Guadalcanal made it advisable to undertake a limited offensive in the South Pacific."
You can read about W.W. II carrier warfare HERE...
Four years after the Pearl Harbor attack, a Japanese newspaper editorial expressed deep regret for Japan's aggressiveness in the Second World War, click here to read about it...
To read articles about W.W. II submarines, Click here.
Click here to read about Admiral Raymond Spruance.
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