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 ...

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 ...

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.

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A ship passing through the Red Sea 25 nautical miles west of Al-Mukha, Yemen, reported on Sunday that a missile had splashed into the sea nearby, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) ...

About 5,000 Japanese kamikaze pilots killed themselves, according to an estimate by the National Air and Space Museum. READ ...

Today is Veterans Day and we salute our veterans with all due honor, gratitude and respect. Each year the Department of Veterans Affairs issues a commemorative poster ...

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." In 2014 ...

Ryoji Uehara, far left, is seen at the Chiran base in Kagoshima Prefecture on May 11, 1945, ahead of his suicide attack mission. (Photo courtesy of his sister Toshie) TOKYO -- "Tomorrow, one ...