Eager to find out how best to save German pilots forced to eject at high altitude ... they took others outside in the freezing cold and strapped them down naked. As the victims writhed in pain ...

TAKAYAMA, Gifu Prefecture--A former kamikaze pilot ... a German audience for the first time 75 years after his suicide mission was unexpectedly called off in the closing days of World War II.

Until Wilhelm Simonsohn walked into Warsaw in September 1939, he hadn’t seen the consequences of war up close. The 19-year-old spent the 18-day German invasion ... as a pilot-in-training in ...