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To: Olog-hai
The restored plane made a brief flight to and from a naval base in southern Japan.

The "naval base" was Kanoya, in Kagoshima prefecture, from where most of the kamikaze flights took off towards the end of WWII. There is a museum there today, which explains why the Zero would be flying from there now.

9 posted on 01/27/2016 6:34:45 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

The Kanoya kamikaze museum is more like a shrine, like Yasukune. Nine Young Gods & all that.

The Zero which the Japanese wish wasn’t intact was the `Akutan Zero’ that was recovered, made flyable, & studied in flight. What was learned affected the outcome of the Pacific war as much as their defeat at Midway, according to one Imperial admiral.


19 posted on 01/27/2016 6:56:07 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: chajin

To quote ‘Cheech’ Marin...

“Honorable General, sir!
You outta-you-f**king-mind!”


63 posted on 01/27/2016 8:26:48 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym defines the science.)
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