Hundreds of thousands of people in Japan visit museums and memorials dedicated to pilots who mounted suicidal missions in ...

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TAKAYAMA, Gifu Prefecture--When he was 17, Imperial Japanese Navy pilot Ryozo Kotoge received orders to deploy for what was supposed to be his last mission: a suicide attack. Even though he was ...

Famed actor Hisaya Morishige (1913-2009) worked at a broadcasting station in Xinjing in the former Manchuria during World War II. When Japan ... will and testament of kamikaze pilots.

The pilots entered the room and were given a piece of paper that asked if they wanted to be kamikaze. There were three answers: “I passionately wish to join,” “I wish to join,” and “I do ...

As World War II veterans age, historians have worked to collect their first-hand accounts before America's oldest living ...

si=EgDuIj9EuWBlwpWM A kamikaze bomber refers to a Japanese military pilot who deliberately carried out suicide missions ...

"Out of 889 crewmen aboard, 134 lost their lives in the first kamikaze attack of World War II." St. Lo survivor Orville ... "The fanatical resolve of Japanese pilots turned their aircraft into ...

The airplanes of the Imperial Japanese Navy's kamikaze special attack unit took ... conducted in war zones of the Pacific until World War II ended with Japan conceding defeat in August 1945.