A special exhibit aboard the battleship USS Missouri has a heart-wrenching perspective on what it is like for a fighter pilot ...

USS Missouri and the Iowa-class battleships were larger and more lethal than their predecessors. W hen it comes to legendary ...

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

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the ...

There's a "USS" in the name of every commissioned ship in the United States Navy. But other designations are more obscure.

A fragment of a silk scarf and a button worn by the kamikaze pilot of a Japanese zero plane that rammed into the USS Missouri during the Battle of Okinawa is on display at the Battleship Missouri ...

The pilot received the same funeral that the ship would have given one of its own sailors. Eighty years later, the USS Missouri is a museum moored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, not far from the ...

On Friday the USS Missouri Memorial Association marked the 80th anniversary of the event with a ceremony on the ship that brought Callaghan’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren to Hawaii ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri ... but none of the battleship’s crew members were badly hurt. The Missouri’s captain ordered ...

The Missouri's captain ordered a ... 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 ...