Following the Second World War, many Nazis fled to Latin America or were recruited by foreign powers. Throughout the post-war ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: With an even worse fuel and raw-materials situation than Germany, Japan probably would have fared no better. It is a fallacy that Germany was the only nation to develop ...

A group of underwater explorers discovered a long-lost sunken World War II Navy warship. The U.S.S. Mannert L. Abele sank off Okinawa in 1945 after being hit by two kamikaze attacks. Insider obtained ...

Think of a kamikaze pilot and the image that comes to mind is probably a screaming face obscured by goggles embarking on a death plunge. Or perhaps no face at all and just a fighter plane plowing into ...

A shipwreck off the coast of Okinawa, Japan has been identified as that of USS Mannert L. Abele, a U.S. Navy destroyer that was sunk by a "human-guided kamikaze bomb" during World War II, authorities ...

In the final days of World War II, kamikaze pilots carried out desperate missions meant to halt Allied advances. Each pilot’s last flight began with solemn ceremonies, letters home, and a one-way ...

WOODBURY, Minn. - Bill Killian saw it coming. During the Battle of Okinawa, fighter planes whipped up a whirlwind of bullets high above Killian's ship. Suddenly, one of the Japanese Zeros broke away, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara launched a publicity campaign for a film celebrating the bravery of its wartime "kamikaze" suicide pilots on Friday, as Japan wrangled again with ...

Herb Kappel, 99, has seen it all. Serving in the Navy at age 18, he fought in the Pacific Theater, taking down kamikaze planes and eventually witnessing Japan's surrender, marking the end of WWII.

More than 14 U.S. Army and Marine divisions never landed on X-Day of Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan to end ...

Of the more than 11 million American armed service members who served during World War II, only about 66,000 are still alive today. Chief video correspondent Graham Flanagan interviewed 106-year-old ...