Eighty years after the first kamikaze attacks were launched on Oct. 25, 1944, the thoughts left behind by those young pilots offer insights into their commitment and lives. “I will die doing my ...
Kamikaze suicide planes sent by desperate Imperial ... "The fanatical resolve of Japanese pilots turned their aircraft into human guided missiles," reported the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Kyotaro Tago's job late in World War II was to decide which young pilots to send to their deaths on kamikaze suicide missions. He was only 19 years old. All these decades later, Tago, 95 ...
About 5,000 Japanese kamikaze pilots killed themselves, according to an estimate by the National Air and Space Museum. Read On The Fox News App The escort carrier USS St. Lo was the first ship ...
After the war, some of the military higher-ups who sent out young kamikaze pilots on their one-way missions claimed that the soldiers took part in those attacks "of their own accord." A Japanese ...