The WWII-era Essex-class aircraft carriers were a pivotal development that served as a historic bridge to the modern carrier ...

The news that the USS Franklin had lost 807 men at ... Zeroing in on the Essex, “at the last second (the kamikaze) banked left. If he’d banked right he could’ve had the whole ship.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A special exhibit aboard the battleship USS Missouri has a heart-wrenching ... and honors the lives of Japanese pilots known as the kamikaze. “The reason why we ...

Courtesy U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command The USS Missouri at the moment it was about to be hit by a Japanese A6M Zero Kamikaze while operating off Okinawa on April 11, 1945. The plane hit ...

Japan Coast Guard Cmdr. Yuichi Kajiya and his son drop flower pedals off the side of the USS Missoui during a ceremony Friday honoring the 80th anniversary of the kamikaze attack on the ship and ...

U.S. Marines perform a rifle salute on board the Battleship Missouri Memorial during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the 1945 kamikaze attack on the USS Missouri and subsequent burial ...

This is the third and final episode of the story of Don McPherson - an F6F Hellcat ace from Fighter Squadron 83, flying off of the USS Essex in 1945 at the Battle of Okinawa. This includes his May ...

USS Essex (CV-9), was one of the most storied vessels in U.S. naval history. On November 25, 1944, a kamikaze attack struck the port edge of Essex’s flight deck. The Japanese plane connected ...

Laid down on December 1, 1941, and commissioned on August 16, 1943, the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Intrepid was one ... and sustained several kamikaze attacks in the process.

Despite kamikaze damage, it stayed active, transporting U.S. servicemen before being decommissioned and sold for scrapping. USS Essex (CV-9), the lead ship of the Essex class, participated in ...

Despite kamikaze damage, it stayed active, transporting U.S. servicemen before being decommissioned and sold for scrapping. USS Essex (CV-9), the lead ship of the Essex class, participated in ...