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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited ... but none of the battleship's crew members were badly hurt. The Missouri's captain ordered a military burial ...