A Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero, the first Model 32 variant to fly since 1945, has successfully completed its first flight after an ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii--A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide attack instantly ...

The F6F Hellcat replaced the Wildcat and was designed to match the Japanese Zero fighter airplanes. It was the U.S. Navy’s dominant carrier-based fighter during the second half of World War II.

A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri ... "There are serious basic defects in this type of attack," he wrote. "First, the expenditure of life and materiel is ...

The Missouri's gunners hit the Zero fighter with a 5-inch (12.7-centimeter) round. The plane plunged, but it leveled out about 20 feet (6 meters) above the ocean and headed for the ship's ...

Here's Why PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — A Japanese pilot slammed his Zero fighter plane into the USS Missouri and ignited a fireball on April 11, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa. The suicide ...