Sunday, 24 April 2011

More research about the Kamikaze and the Koreans.

A Kamikaze with a Japan flag.


What Kamikaze drink before their mission. The is called Sake.

Koreans costumes in the past.

WHY DO KAMIKAZE PILOTS WEAR HEMETS?
Their "helmets" were made of leather and canvas, and had the radio speakers over the ears.
They provided protection to the pilots to insure that they would make it to their targets. If they were unable to get to their target area, they were instructed to return to base, so that they and the planes could be used again to try at a better time.

WHAT DID THE KAMIKAZE PILOTS DO BEFORE THEIR MISSION?
They were given the flag of Japan or the rising sun flag (Japanese naval ensign), inscribed with inspirational and spiritual words, Nambu pistol or katana and drank sake before they took off generally. They put on a hachimaki headband with the rising sun, and a senninbari, a "belt of a thousand stitches" sewn by a thousand women who made one stitch each. They also composed and read a death poem, a tradition stemming from the samurai, who did it before committing seppuku. Pilots carried prayers from their families and were given military decorations.


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