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 ...

TAKAYAMA, Gifu Prefecture--When he was 17, Imperial Japanese Navy pilot Ryozo Kotoge received orders to deploy for what was supposed to be his last mission: a suicide attack. Even though he was ...

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 ...