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 ...

The flight of elite U.S. Navy pilots headline the show with thrilling ... setting strategy as planes launched from aircraft carriers swept the Imperial Japanese military from sea and sky.