This is the story of Setsuo Ishino, the Japanese Zero Kamikaze pilot that crashed into the USS Missouri off of Okinawa, and how the US Navy Actually held a funeral for him. Trump releases ...

The five pilots all died. The army followed suit immediately with its own kamikaze mission. The institute’s archive shows that in October 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy notified its forces ...

TAKAYAMA, Gifu Prefecture--When he was 17, Imperial Japanese Navy pilot Ryozo Kotoge received orders to deploy for what was supposed to be his last mission: a suicide attack. Even though he was ...

The pilots entered the room and were given ... Now, at 93, he notes that he has lived four times as long as many kamikaze. He loved flying the Zero fighter planes so much so that he didn ...

Nine more waves of kamikaze attacks hit the fleet off of Okinawa before the battle came to an end. Almost 2,000 Japanese pilots would willingly lose their lives in these attacks. By late June ...

During the Second World War, the term 'kamikaze' was used for Japanese fighter pilots who were sent on suicide missions. They were expected to crash their warplanes into enemy warships.

A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they get conflicting accounts from his former ...