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The Japanese Surprise Attack They Didn’t Teach You In School

December 28, 2014 5 Comments

Battlefields of the Russo-Japanese War

Battlefields of the Russo-Japanese War, Map Source: P. f. Collier & Son

While most people are familiar with the famous Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, you probably don’t know about a similar Japanese attack 36 years earlier. The map above shows the battles of the relatively little known Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.

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Filed Under: History Tagged With: navy, sea, war


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