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 ...

KANZAKI, Saga Prefecture--Some 90 years after he took off from Paris, the flight ... stay in Japan, Japy shared his experiences and advice with the pilot of The Asahi Shimbun’s Kamikaze-go ...

“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 ...