The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one ...

Therefore, Japan increased the kamikaze program. Primarily, kamikaze pilots flew one of WWII's most legendary planes, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters, but as Japan became more desperate ...

Japan detonated 461 WWII-era US-made shells Thursday off the coast of Japan's southeastern island of Okinawa, the Stars and Stripes US military newspaper reported. The shells saw active combat in ...

Naval vessels are staffed by some of the most courageous people in uniform you’ll ever meet. This was doubly true ...

Over the first month of this operation, the ship is credited with downing 12 Japanese aircraft. The Indiana class is perhaps the oldest class of any warship to participate in WWII – it was one o ...

No one was injured, but a passenger on one of the planes described “violent shaking” and a “really loud crunching sound.” ...