On June 11, 1937, the Kawanishi E11K made its first flight. Intended as a night reconnaissance flying boat for the Imperial ...

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into ... when it was hopelessly losing. The Imperial Navy founded the Kamikaze Tokko Tai, which translates as Divine Wind Special Attack Corps ...

By breaking through to previously unthinkable speeds, developing new air combat tactics, or demonstrating that pilot skill can ... Captain, Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service, 1902–1976 Yeager ...

The five pilots all died. The army followed suit immediately with its own kamikaze mission. The institute’s archive shows that in October 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy notified its forces ...

Kamikaze suicide planes sent by desperate Imperial Japan screamed down from ... "The fanatical resolve of Japanese pilots turned their aircraft into human guided missiles," reported the Naval ...

The ship was downed after an intensive battle with the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1942 ... The ship went down with 185 US Navy personnel and 31 US Army Air Force pilots aboard, US Chief of Naval ...

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into ... when it was hopelessly losing. The Imperial Navy founded the Kamikaze Tokko Tai, which translates as Divine Wind Special Attack Corps ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane ... when it was hopelessly losing. The Imperial Navy founded the Kamikaze Tokko Tai, which translates as Divine ...

The Imperial Navy founded ... Callaghan, to Japanese gunfire off Guadalcanal. Scholars believe he was Setsuo Ishino, a petty officer 2nd class in a flight training program. The pilot took off ...

(U.S. National Archives photo no. 80-G-315811A via AP) PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero ... when it was hopelessly losing. The Imperial Navy founded the Kamikaze Tokko ...