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 ...

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

On Friday, three of the captain’s grandsons will mark the anniversary of the attack and burial with the mayors of Honolulu and the Japanese city of Minamikyushu, from which many kamikaze pilots ...

American sailors sewed a Japanese flag and draped Ishino’s remains with it as they committed ... word of Callaghan’s show of respect to a fallen kamikaze pilot would spread, helping the ...

Internationally their missions are called kamikaze, but in Japan they are better known as “tokko,” which means “special attack.” The pilots flew hastily constructed planes and even ...

Internationally their missions are called kamikaze, but in Japan they are better known as “tokko,” which means “special attack.” The pilots flew hastily constructed planes and even ...

(AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy) This image provided by the U.S. National Archives shows shows the remains of a Japanese ... the Japanese Zero fighter that a kamikaze pilot flew into the side of the ...