Intrepid was one of 24 Essex-class carriers cranked out in East ... In all, the carrier survived five kamikaze attacks, three wars, three decommissionings, and a near-scrapping before real estate ...

Flight Petty Officer 2nd Class Setsuo Ishino, age 19, took off from Kanoya Air Base in Japan’s Kago­shima prefecture. He was ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot ...

He was piloting a Zero fighter carrying a 500-kilogram bomb with the mission of carrying out a kamikaze attack on American forces. Kailon Tyndzik, 30, of Kauai, was a well-loved surfer with an ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCIV) — The USS Laffey, a storied warship now docked ... attack in April 1945 near Okinawa. During the mass Kamikaze strike, more than 30 sailors lost their lives, and ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) - Patriots Point hosted special events on Wednesday dedicated to honoring the legacy of veterans of the infamous kamikaze attack on the USS Laffey during the Battle of ...

This April 3 photo taken at the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, shows fragments of the Japanese Zero fighter that a kamikaze pilot flew into the side of the USS Missouri ...

Kamikaze sank their first ship on Oct. 25, 1944, when a navy Zero pilot smashed into the USS St. Lo in the Philippine Sea while carrying a pair of 550-pound bombs. Britain’s Imperial War Museum ...