Mysterious markings on Japanese kamikaze flying bomb baffle museum experts

dailymail ^ | 2 January 2014 | Hugo Gye

[right way right]

These people ate us.
They killed POWs and ate them.

[Bringbackthedraft]

It says; “THIS IS MY 25TH KAMIKAZI MISSION, AFTER THIS ONE I GO HOME.”

[Cyber Liberty]

That’s a “Baka Bomb” and it doesn’t mean “Cherry Blossom.”

[colinhester]

Bflr

[QT3.14]

I've diciphered most of it:

Wear Kimonos.
Drink Hot Sake.
Talk about getting...[can't make out rest].

#GetTalking
Zer∅bama.com/talk

[ifinnegan]

I think the characters are representing that the pilot is making a most glorious and noble self sacrifice.

[pat1969]

“Baka” was American military code for the weapon. Baka is Japanese for “Fool”.

[spawn44]

Eat at Joe’s. Those Japanese couldn’t bare to waste any advertising space.

[GeronL]

I don’t think anyone had ejection seats in those days, open canopy, disconnect seat belt and jump.

[Vroomfondel]

[GeronL]

I do not think these particular planes could return to base.

[GeronL]

Very appropriate to the thread

[tanknetter]

Kamikazes would only attack worthy vessels and some would not attack destroyers,

There was a great story, I think in USNI Proceedings years ago, about a radar picket destroyer in the Pacific near the end of WWII that happened to have someone fluent in Japanese aboard.

Painted on the top of the ship's turrets in Japanese was the phrase "Insignificant Destroyer, Press on for Glorious Carrier".

[MeshugeMikey]

Its was more appropriate than I had pkanned on it being when I out ti together I can tell you that,

" Mysterious markings on Japanese kamikaze flying bomb baffle museum experts "

I coudnt have imagined that "headline",,or our ever having to deal with an Obamakaze...

[kaehurowing]

—My great-uncle Gerald “Argyle” McNaughton was a Scottish Kamikaze.—

Aye, was he a member of the Queen’s Own McKamikaze Highlanders?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es0t50H44IE

[Darksheare]

Germans had primitive ejection seats.

[GeronL]

Were they large ACME coiled springs?

[Darksheare]

Not certain.
Heinkel developed it for the He 280.
After that, the He 219 uhu had them.
The He 162 salamander had a different type, it was a set of giant shotgun shells that launched the seat upward.
The Dornier Do 335 pfiel had ejections seats, and explosive bolts that launched the vertical stabilizer and rear prop..

[elcid1970]

Every kamikaze formation had at least ONE aircraft with the mission of witnessing the effectiveness of those who did the final death dive. Somebody had to survive to make an after action report.

Maybe that one drew the short straw.

[elcid1970]

Any aircraft that tries to land with fuzed munitions still on board is likely to go kaboom, but was there a `fail-safe’ detonater on kamikaze planes? Interesting question.