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 ...

Flight Petty Officer 2nd Class Setsuo Ishino, age 19, took off from Kanoya Air Base in Japan’s Kago­shima prefecture. He was ...

A commissioning ceremony will be held at a Connecticut shipyard as the first submarine to bear the USS Iowa name becomes an official Navy ship ...

Launched in 1944, the USS Missouri (or "Mighty Mo") is best known for hosting a meeting between Allied and Axis representatives that led to Japan's surrender and the end of World War II.

U.S. Marines perform a rifle salute on board the Battleship Missouri Memorial during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the 1945 kamikaze attack on the USS Missouri and subsequent burial ...

the USS Missouri, and a post-commissioning celebration will include many foods from the Iowa State Fair — including, of course, various delicacies on a stick. “We’re really just going to try ...