The Sinking of Japan

An island nation with few resources, Japan was in a precarious enough position when it declared war on the United States in December 1941. That its powerful navy failed to learn the lessons of previous conflicts made matters even worse.

A Japanese merchant ship is torpedoed and sunk by a US submarine, November 18th, 1943.

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