For the Empire of the Rising Sun, the end was looming large. By April 1945, US forces had relentlessly driven Japan’s ...

After relentless Allied bombardments on Okinawa, the last bastion before Japan's shores, April 12, 1945, witnessed a drastic ...

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In spring 1945, the US island-hopping campaign was drawing closer to the Japanese mainland. US commanders were thinking about an invasion of Japanese itself, and invading Okinawa was seen as a prelude ...

CHARLESTON, SC (WCIV) — The USS Laffey, dubbed the "Ship That Would Not Die," marks its 75th anniversary on Thursday, April 16 since the ship survived a kamikaze attack during WWII in Okinawa, Japan.

On April 6, 1945, the first wave of ten coordinated kamikaze attacks began to hit the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet off the coast of Okinawa. Ships in the Fifth Fleet had experienced suicide attacks before ...

Think of a kamikaze pilot and the image that comes to mind is probably a screaming face obscured by goggles embarking on a death plunge. Or perhaps no face at all and just a fighter plane plowing into ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X On May 28, 1945, when World War II was still raging in the Pacific, the USS Drexler sank during ...