This was 1945 and now Japan was running out of troops ... his roommate would have to go.” Another plane - the Ohka - was more suited to kamikaze missions because it was small and packed with ...

A fireball erupted as a Japan Airlines plane landed on a runway at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. Watch as dramatic footage shows the blaze spreading quickly across the aircraft. The BBC's Anna Holligan ...

By Japan Association For Winter Masters Sports Iichi Marumo started competing in his late 80s, after a life spent farming, publishing poetry and volunteering to fly in a kamikaze mission during ...

Lieutenant Walter “Wally” T. Stradwick was a fighter pilot of the British Pacific Fleet, whose selflessness and bravery were ...

“Memoirs of a Kamikaze” is the ... Just prior to his eighth flight attempt, Odachi listened to the Aug. 15, 1945, broadcast by Emperor Hirohito announcing Japan’s surrender.

A World War II era bomb that lay buried unexploded beneath a Japanese airport blew up Wednesday (Oct 2), damaging the taxiway and causing flight cancellations. Land and Transport Ministry ...

He recalled a close call with a Japanese kamikaze plane, which struck a nearby vessel, the USS Zeilin, during a convoy in the Leyte Gulf on Jan. 13, 1945, according to an email sent Sunday by his ...