A visitor looks at photos of deceased World War II pilots of the Imperial Japanese Army at Chiran Peace Museum in Chiran, Japan. AP CHIRAN, Japan — As young army pilots took off on suicide-attack ...
THE LIBERATION OF THE PHILIPPINES (338 pp.)—Samuel Eliot Morison —Atlantic-Little, Brown ($6.50). Two kamikaze planes had splashed close by destroyer Walke when a third crashed into the bridge, ...
A couple of years ago I paid an emotional and disturbing visit to an old air base near the southern tip of Japan. Kamikaze pilots received training here and many were launched from here for their ...
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 ...
On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito gave a speech on the radio in which he announced the unconditional surrender of Japan to the Allied powers. Among many nationalistic Japanese, ...
MINAMI-KYUSHU, Kagoshima Prefecture—Treated as “gods” for sacrificing their lives to protect their country and their families, kamikaze pilots have inspired generations of Japanese in the postwar ...
"I went from thinking a group of people were my enemy to finding my best friend," Jerry Yellin tells PEOPLE As a member of the 78th fighter squadron during World War II, former Army Air Corps Captain ...
An ancient story tells of the kamikaze, or "divine wind," that twice saved Japan from Kublai Khan's Mongol fleets. So powerful was the legend that centuries later thousands of World War II pilots ...
CHIRAN, Japan (AP) — As young army pilots took off on suicide-attack missions in the closing days of World War II, the schoolgirls in this southwestern Japanese town waved handkerchiefs and branches ...
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