Wednesday, May 22, 2013

'Kaiten' type WW2 Japanese human torpedo


Like the Muslims today, the Japanese had suicide Kamikaze bombers who wanted to die for their Emperor in the later stages of WW2; most were flyers of planes laden with bombs who would crash their planes into American warships, but there were also about 300 pilots of these huge Kaiten ("The turn toward heaven")  type torpedoes, of which one is on display at the naval museum in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii.  Details on this page (Geoff Churchman pic)

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