A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the ...
What was it really like to spend your final day as a kamikaze pilot? During the final years of World War II, thousands of young Japanese aviators were assigned to one-way missions with little hope of ...
The Japanese word kamikaze translates to "divine wind." It refers to the storms that saved Japan from the invading Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan, and thus it was the moniker given to the pilots of ...