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08 Feb 21 - 01:41 PM (#4092164) Subject: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Bonzo3legs I' m lost for words!!! |
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08 Feb 21 - 02:38 PM (#4092171) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Georgiansilver Well... they do in films anyway. |
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08 Feb 21 - 04:45 PM (#4092195) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: punkfolkrocker For the return journey... |
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08 Feb 21 - 05:25 PM (#4092198) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Raedwulf I've never had a high opinion of your intellectual capacity, Bonzo. Congratulations on confirming what every habitue of Mudcat (even infrequent ones such as me) have always thought! |
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08 Feb 21 - 05:39 PM (#4092202) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Bonzo3legs Pleased and proud!!! |
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08 Feb 21 - 11:58 PM (#4092235) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Joe_F This is an important question, like whether Adam & Eve had navels. |
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09 Feb 21 - 04:44 AM (#4092253) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Ebbie My brother was offended when I inquired whether God had a penis. |
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09 Feb 21 - 04:48 AM (#4092255) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Doug Chadwick No, she doesn't. DC |
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09 Feb 21 - 04:59 AM (#4092258) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Joe Offer Kamikaze pilots had a need for helmets until their mission was accomplished. No? |
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09 Feb 21 - 05:07 AM (#4092259) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Backwoodsman Yes! |
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09 Feb 21 - 05:40 AM (#4092261) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Mr Red Call me a pedant, but were they helmets or diving caps? |
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09 Feb 21 - 07:50 AM (#4092272) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Charmion The helmet protected the pilot of a tiny single-engine aircraft (such as the British Hurricane or the Japanese Zero) from environmental factors that hinder flying performance, specifically the cold, the wind, and the noise. Kamikaze had to reach their targets, so they had to be adequately dressed. |
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09 Feb 21 - 08:19 AM (#4092279) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Nigel Parsons Many pictures of kamikaze pilots show them wearing a bandana with the Japanese flag (Rising Sun). If they didn't wear a helmet they risked the bandana slipping, and getting the sun in their eyes ;) |
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09 Feb 21 - 12:00 PM (#4092310) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Charmion's brother Andrew When violently manoeuvring an aircraft to evade an opponent or to get into position to engage him, it was entirely possible that one's head might be dashed against the canopy which, in the case of the A6M and several other Japanese aircraft, had framed panels. Those can cold-cock a pilot or badly cut him. |
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09 Feb 21 - 12:54 PM (#4092316) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Bonzo3legs Which in the case of nasty jap kamikaze pilots would have been a good thing!!! |
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09 Feb 21 - 12:58 PM (#4092317) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Steve Shaw "Cold-cock"... Bejaysus, I've never heard that one, but it has now permanently joined my lexicon! :-) |
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09 Feb 21 - 02:47 PM (#4092327) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Charmion Steve, you should read more pulp fiction. Some of the best vocabulary is to be found there. |
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09 Feb 21 - 03:02 PM (#4092328) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: punkfolkrocker At this point, bonz might be interested in googling circumstances when kamikaze pilots where permitted / advised to return to base, in order to live to commit suicide another day... |
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09 Feb 21 - 04:02 PM (#4092336) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Jack Campin Why did Trump get intelligence briefings? |
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09 Feb 21 - 10:33 PM (#4092366) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Charmion Trump got intelligence briefings because his staff were determined to do their jobs even if he had no intention of doing his. |
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10 Feb 21 - 03:26 AM (#4092382) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Mr Red Apparently Trumplestiltskin didn't like 5 page briefings, and demanded summaries on a single page. And my source quipped, not altogether joking, he was given charts and pictures. Made all the more believable by another guy who worked on his TV shows (who claimed he was clearly dyslexic) and would not follow the prompt script claiming he was improvising. Now how did the ex-Twiltler in chief get onto a thread about kamikazi? |
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10 Feb 21 - 04:58 AM (#4092396) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Acorn4 Why did Blind Lemon Jefferson wear glasses? |
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10 Feb 21 - 08:40 AM (#4092424) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Charmion's brother Andrew "Why did Trump get intelligence briefings?" If you have pearls and you're allowed to do nothing else with them, you might as well cast them before swine. |
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10 Feb 21 - 09:27 AM (#4092428) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Bonzo3legs "Why did Blind Lemon Jefferson wear glasses?" so he could feel for his teeth!!!!!! |
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10 Feb 21 - 10:40 PM (#4092559) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: robomatic What did the first man to milk a cow think he was doing? |
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11 Feb 21 - 12:56 AM (#4092563) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: JennieG The first person to eat an oyster was a very brave person indeed. |
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11 Feb 21 - 04:15 AM (#4092570) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Steve Shaw The real genius was the man who invented the second telephone. |
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11 Feb 21 - 05:26 AM (#4092580) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Nigel Parsons The man who invented the second telephone would have been the same man who invented the first, or he would have had no way to test it. Possibly Alexander Graham Bell, but there are other claimants. |
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11 Feb 21 - 05:57 AM (#4092583) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Steve Shaw Never mind, Nigel. The moment has passed... |
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14 Feb 21 - 02:29 AM (#4093043) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Ebbie People in civilized countries wouldn't know this but they say that when a person is being executed by injection, they swab the spot(s) with alcohol first. |
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14 Feb 21 - 03:37 AM (#4093047) Subject: RE: BS: Why did kamikaze wear helmets??? From: Backwoodsman Mrs Backwoodsperson and I were watching a TV programme a while ago, in which the procedure for execution by lethal injection was described. Hearing that the injection-site(s) are swabbed first was a real ‘WTF?’ moment. If it wasn’t part of such a cruel, barbaric, and tragic event it would have been funny. |