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

Aircraft carriers have been central to the U.S. Navy, and over the years they have only increased in importance since their introduction in World War 2. Each new generation has pushed the limits of ...

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito gave a speech on the radio in which he announced the unconditional ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly killed ...

Orders from Tokyo (Jap atrocities in Manila; TIME, Aug. 20). The Fleet That Came to Stay (U.S. Navy v. Kamikaze at Okinawa; TIME, Aug. 13). Anchors Aweigh (Frank ...

Able Seaman Frederick Mitchell of Guelph had the distinction of serving aboard a Canadian naval vessel that saw action against the Japanese during the Second World War, and as such was the only ...

MANCHESTER – On Albert Perdeck's table sits a foot-long block of wood, bleached by tropical sun and blackened by fire. It's the smoke, and the dead sailors, that still haunt him. "That smoke. I was ...

Nakagusuku, Okinawa Pref., June 23 (Jiji Press)--"I want to see my father again," says a daughter of an Okinawan man who died as a kamikaze suicide attack pilot about 80 years ago. "The last time I ...

This April 3 photo taken at the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, shows fragments of the Japanese Zero fighter that a kamikaze pilot flew into the side of the USS Missouri during ...

U.S. MARINES PERFORM a rifle salute on board the Battleship Missouri Memorial during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the 1945 kamikaze attack on the USS Missouri and subsequent burial at ...