Guns of the Japanese battleship Hiei lie on the bottom of the Pacific. (© Navigea Ltd. / R/V Petrel via Vulcan) A wide-ranging shipwreck survey funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is continuing ...
The first Japanese battleship sunk by US forces during World War II has been found off Guadalcanal, the largest of the Solomon Islands and the location of fierce battles during the Pacific War. The ...
In November 1942, the fast battleship Hiei approached Guadalcanal to bombard Henderson Field and clear the way for a major Japanese convoy. Instead, in the darkness off the island, she suddenly found ...
One of the first Japanese battleship to be sunk by U.S. forces during World War II has been discovered in the Solomon Islands by a research organization set up by the late billionaire Paul Allen.