No war – won or lost – is ever waged without sacrifice. Those sacrifices can be material in the loss of equipment or ...

It was a torpedo turned suicide vessel—and few outside Japan even knew it existed. The Kaiten was a manned kamikaze submarine ...

Kamikaze drones, also known as loitering munitions, are UAVs designed to explode on impact by crashing into their targets with built-in warheads.

On Friday, three of the captain's grandsons will mark the anniversary of the attack and burial with the mayors of Honolulu and the Japanese city of Minamikyushu, from which many kamikaze pilots ...

Courtesy U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command The USS Missouri at the moment it was about to be hit by a Japanese A6M Zero Kamikaze while operating off Okinawa on April 11, 1945. The plane hit ...

A special exhibit aboard the battleship USS Missouri has a heart-wrenching perspective on what it is like for a fighter pilot preparing to die for his country.

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Oki ...

Japan Coast Guard Cmdr. Yuichi Kajiya and his son drop flower pedals off the side of the USS Missoui during a ceremony Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on the ship and ...

The Americans did not discover until after the war how well informed the Japanese commanders of these islands were. Details of American attacks on Saipan and in the Philippines were known to the ...

The Americans did not discover until after the war how well informed the Japanese commanders of these islands were. Details of American attacks on Saipan and in the Philippines were known to the ...

Japan launched a suicide attack campaign as a last-ditch measure to push U.S. forces back late in the war, when it was hopelessly losing. The Imperial Navy founded the Kamikaze Tokko Tai ...