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

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his fighter plane into the American vessel ...

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 ... a makeshift “rising sun” flag so ...