Thanks, Guy-san!
I will going to include that topic which is another interesting one.
Regards,
Taka
Thanks, Guy-san!
I will going to include that topic which is another interesting one.
Regards,
Taka
This is a very interesting book on the IJN Kaiten operation.....Pete.
JEDEM DAS SEINE
Great thread, to round it out - I am currently working with preparing some Kamikaze specific aircraft designs for display, the MXKY-7 Ohaka trainer AKA the 'Baka' and the Nakajima Ki-115 Tsurugi - see picture of the Tsurugi below. One of only 2 out of 120 or so built. It was a cheap light weight one-way airplane assembled around surplus obsolete engines at the Nakajima factory, particularly Ki-43 Hayabusa types. We are doing a careful clean of all the preservative residue and then likely coat with an acryloid solution and then over paint. The fuselage is a cheap mild steel sheet material that was lightly galvanized, the galv has long ago sacrificed itself and now it is covered in a shell of thin rust. The wings are aluminum.
Mr Taka you may continue your information hereon this thread or you may start a thread of your own.. The pleasure will be for the students here. Your choice but a win for everyone! Regards Larry
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One never knows what tree roots push to the surface of what laid buried before the tree was planted - Larry C
“The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” - Winston Churchill
What a great thread this has transformed into.
Well done on all the effort guys.
Great item Larry
Eric
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Taka-san,
Feel free to cut and paste this for your thread.
伏龍
The Diving Society
--Guyby JDH
I had a good friend, Sasano Masayuki, who was one of these frogmen swimming around Tokyo Bay with a bamboo pole and a satchel charge on the end. The object was to find and destroy American submarines. Some of you may know his name as he was a leading scholar on iron tsuba. He published numerous books on the subject and proved that some tsuba were much older than what the traditional teaching had taught. He told me that he had a wish to die for the Emperor. He volunteered for a naval unit in China which supposedly give him that opportunity as the newspapers printed continual accounts of their fierce combat encounters. When he got to the unit, he discovered that the stories were nothing more than propoganda. Thus, when he had the opportunity, he volunteered for this job. He was featured in a post war article about the kamikaze in Time magazine in 1947 with a picture of him holding a mock up of his pole and satchel charge.
Last edited by BOB COLEMAN; 08-25-2013 at 03:41 AM.
BOB
LIFE'S LOSERS NEVER LEARN FROM THE ERROR OF THEIR WAYS.
In case someone has not read the 31 January 1946 US Navy report on the Fukuryu, USNTMJ-200I-0743-0766 S-91(N)
--Guy
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