Robert F. Kennedy was obsessed with the ideal of courage. The worst thing he could say about someone was that he was "a coward" (a slur he reserved for his archenemy, Lyndon Johnson). At a reception ...

On the 15th of August 1945, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito gave a speech on the radio in which he announced the unconditional ...

Think of a kamikaze pilot and the image that comes to mind is probably a screaming face obscured by goggles embarking on a death plunge. Or perhaps no face at all and just a fighter plane plowing into ...

Unteroffizier Klaus Hahn has been hardened by the firestorms that the Americans and British unleashed over the German cities.

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly ...

For three decades, survivors of the April 11, 1945, kamikaze attack on the USS Kidd have made the trek to Baton Rouge to remember the day when 38 of their shipmates were killed on a deadly sunny ...

Gianni Nunnari’s Hollywood Gang Productions has launched development on a World War II movie about the USS Laffey, which survived an intense kamikaze attack during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. The ...

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 the ...

Maurice “Boy” Clements, a crew member who survived the kamikaze attack on the USS Kidd during World War II, died Saturday in Baton Rouge. He was 93. Clements, a lifelong Baton Rougean except for 21 ...