Posted on 01/02/2014 1:44:59 PM PST by virgil283
"A museum is appealing for experts to help them decipher mysterious codes written on the side of a World War Two kamikaze plane....The model held by the Fleet Air Arm Museum is believed to have been captured by Allied troops in the Pacific....They were fixed to the underside of bomber planes, before being flown up to a height of 12,000ft and released.
The vessels would be piloted by suicide pilots, who aimed for Allied ships and would inevitably die on impact. They could travel unaided for 21 miles, reaching a maximum speed of 475mph. Only 800 of the aircraft were ever made... 'There's a grab handle fixed to the inner wall of the cockpit as acceleration generated by the three solid fuel rockets would have been incredible.'
The name of the plane means 'cherry blossom' in Japanese, and a picture of the flower is painted on its side along with the mysterious symbols...."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
These people ate us.
They killed POWs and ate them.
It says; “THIS IS MY 25TH KAMIKAZI MISSION, AFTER THIS ONE I GO HOME.”
That’s a “Baka Bomb” and it doesn’t mean “Cherry Blossom.”
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I think the characters are representing that the pilot is making a most glorious and noble self sacrifice.
“Baka” was American military code for the weapon. Baka is Japanese for “Fool”.
Eat at Joe’s. Those Japanese couldn’t bare to waste any advertising space.
I don’t think anyone had ejection seats in those days, open canopy, disconnect seat belt and jump.
I do not think these particular planes could return to base.
Very appropriate to the thread
—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
Germans had primitive ejection seats.
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..
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.
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.
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