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. When 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 ...

2 /6 U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES Sailors prepare a burial at sea for the remains of a Japanese pilot whose plane hit the USS Missouri on April 11, 1945. Courtesy U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command ...

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This image provided by the U.S. National Archives shows a scan of a photo of a Japanese Zero fighter plane hitting the USS Missouri in waters off Okinawa, Japan on April 11, 1945. (U.S. National ...

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 ...