For the Empire of the Rising Sun, the end was looming large. By April 1945, US forces had relentlessly driven Japan’s once-expansive empire back to its home islands. Perched on the doorstep of Japan, ...

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In spring 1945, the US island-hopping campaign was drawing closer to the Japanese mainland. US commanders were thinking about an invasion of Japanese itself, and invading Okinawa was seen as a prelude ...

On April 6, 1945, the first wave of ten coordinated kamikaze attacks began to hit the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet off the coast of Okinawa. Ships in the Fifth Fleet had experienced suicide attacks before ...

CHARLESTON, SC (WCIV) — The USS Laffey, dubbed the "Ship That Would Not Die," marks its 75th anniversary on Thursday, April 16 since the ship survived a kamikaze attack during WWII in Okinawa, Japan.

Nakagusuku, Okinawa Pref. (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 saw my ...

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 ...

Ninety-seven-year-old Robert Brakley's story is one of rolling with the punches, of seemingly endless twists and turns of fate. A young Brakley was a certified welder working at a railroad car ...

The district attorney of New York County, Robert Morgenthau, called the other day to say that he’d appreciated the editorial about the Copperheads. It wasn’t just the substance of the editorial that ...

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