He was 23. Now, at 93, he notes that he has lived four times as long as many kamikaze. He loved flying the Zero fighter planes so much so that he didn’t want to fly passenger aircraft afterwards.
Kamikaze suicide planes sent by desperate Imperial Japan screamed down from the skies over Surigao Strait in the Philippines, terrifying American sailors, for the first time on this day in history ...
The main premiere of the large-scale Russian exhibition is expected to be the Il-76MD-90A(E) large transport aircraft, which will be demonstrated outside Russia for the first time in modern history.
The bomb, which exploded at Miyazaki Airport in south-west Japan, is thought to have been dropped during World War Two to stem "kamikaze" planes on suicide missions. "There is no threat of a ...
Literally translated, kamikaze means "divine wind ... Masayuki was sent to China where he learned to fly fighter planes. In February 1945 he and his fellow pilots were called to a meeting ...
Aircraft carriers and battleships were supposed ... and that's the only time you should ever do it." Nine more waves of kamikaze attacks hit the fleet off of Okinawa before the battle came ...
They trained daily to take their aircraft to altitudes of about 2,000 meters before diving toward a target simulated to be an enemy ship. “Everyone realized they were kamikaze pilots only after ...