By breaking through to previously unthinkable speeds, developing new air combat tactics, or demonstrating that pilot skill can ... Captain, Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service, 1902–1976 Yeager ...

The five pilots all died. The army followed suit immediately with its own kamikaze mission. The institute’s archive shows that in October 1944, the Imperial Japanese Navy notified its forces ...

At age 16, he joined the Imperial Japanese Navy’s preparatory pilot training course and became a special unit member in October 1944. After seeing the first kamikaze unit swing into action off ...