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Eight senior veterans took to the skies above Wittman Regional Airport as Dream Flights returned to northeast Wisconsin, offering flights in a fully restored WWII-era ...
Lt. Cmdr. James Coe of the submarine Skipjack battled for his boat to receive what he deemed a basic necessity: toilet paper.
Though the B-17D was eased into the water in the trough between waves, it still struck with such force that bolted-down ...
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Bob Oehl, a pilot for the Collings Foundation, in the cockpit of a World War II-era B-25 Mitchell in 2006 Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Compounding the concerns were indications that Collings wanted to fly ...
Some 4,000 pilots died on suicide missions, about 2,500 navy and more than 1,400 army, most of them university students drafted in late 1943.
The Missouri’s captain ordered a military burial at sea with full honors, marking one of the more unusual and little-known episodes of World War II. The pilot received the same funeral that the ...
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 bombs.
During World War II, a Japanese pilot crashed into the USS Missouri. The ship's captain, William Callaghan, ordered a military burial for the pilot. This act of compassion is remembered today. The ...
A US Navy captain ordered a military funeral for a kamikaze pilot during WWII. Here’s why. By AUDREY McAVOY and MARI YAMAGUCHI The Associated Press, Updated April 11, 2025, 12:29 a.m.
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 (250-kilogram) bombs.