πΈ Women at War
The Kamikaze Who Missed on Purpose
On October 25, 1944, during the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, Ensign Masajiro Miyashita flew his Zero toward the USS Kaloli, then pulled up at the last second and deliberately flew past the carrier without attacking, landing...
The Japanese Admiral Who Saved 3,000 Allied POWs
When Vice Admiral ChΕ«ichi Nagumo β the same admiral who attacked Pearl Harbor β discovered in August 1945 that his forces were ordered to execute 3,000 Allied POWs rather than transport them to Japan, he refused. He fals...
The Last kamikaze: October 1945
Japan officially surrendered on September 2, 1945. But on October 18, 1945 β six weeks after the surrender β a Japanese pilot named Lieutenant Second Class Kazuo Odashima took off from Kanoya airfield in a Mitsubishi Ki-...
The USS Indianapolis Survivors Who Survived Shark Attacks
After the cruiser USS Indianapolis was sunk by Japanese torpedoes on July 30, 1945, 880 men went into the water with almost no lifeboats or supplies. They survived four days in the Pacific. What history books often softe...
The Firebombing of Tokyo: The Raid Most Americans Don't Know
On the night of March 9-10, 1945, B-29s dropped 1,665 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo in a single raid, creating a firestorm that killed an estimated 100,000 people in a single night β more than either atomic bombing. ...