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History That Doesn't Suck · Feb 2, 2026
198: The Pacific Tide Turns at Coral Sea & Midway
“Commander-in-Chief of Imperial Japanese Combined Fleet; architect of Midway operation; ordered fleet withdrawal after defeat”
Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942)Battle of Midway (June 1942)Japanese Naval Strategy in Pacific Theater
View AnalysisHistory That Doesn't Suck · Jan 19, 2026
197: The Doolittle Raid & the Bataan Death March (Spring 1942)
“Japanese naval commander planning to draw out U.S. aircraft carriers following Doolittle Raid's psychological impact”
Doolittle Raid on Tokyo (April 1942)Bataan Peninsula Defense and RetreatBataan Death March (April 1942)
View AnalysisHistory That Doesn't Suck · Nov 24, 2025
193: The Empire of the Rising Sun: Military Imperialism in Japan (1853–1941)
“Warned that Japan could not win a war with the United States; planned the Pearl Harbor attack despite reservations.”
Japanese Meiji Restoration and modernization (1868–1890)Commodore Matthew Perry's expedition and Treaty of Kanagawa (1853–1854)Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) and Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)
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