I've held one of these hats in my own hands. I knew an older gentlemen when I was a kid who served in the Pacific theater during WWII flying transport planes. After taking one island (sadly don't remember which) that didn't have quarters for all the troops, he was sleeping under the wings of his plane. He told me a kamikaze slammed into the next plane over, but due to some user or mechanical error, there was no explosion thankfully. After the higher-ups inspected the crash and decided to leave it til morning, he snuck over and took the kamikaze's hat as a souvenir. It was incredibly warm and had japanese writing on the inside. I'm not sure how many hats actually worn by kamikazes have survived to today, but I imagine this was a once in a lifetime opportunity for me to hold this bit of history in my own hands.
@@capncake8837 Sadly no. And this was before smartphones, so I had no camera with me. I wish I had more details and more proof too, but sadly all I have is the story, the way I remember it, the way he remembered it lol.
I do seem to remember him saying he had it translated. I think he said one of the words was the city where the hat was manufactured, but I could be misremembering that. Sorry I don't have more.
the saddest part, kamikaze pilots missed their targets most of the time because at dive, they lose control of the plane because it doesn't have hydraulics BUT none came back to tell the rest.
@@mamad0106 Or maybe they never reached to their destination, they just didn’t want to do it. Who’d know? No cameras or gps to follow their routes right?
Kazuo Odachi survived and he wrote a book about his experience as a Kamikaze Pilot. The book is The Last Kamikaze and I think people should read about how Kamikaze missions we're conducted and what led to it being implemented in Imperial Japan. It wasn't all that glamorous but It certainly isn't what most people think it was.
A huge reason for this tactic even existing was less about a cultural view on dying with honor and more based on a lack of qualified pilots by the end of the war. The Mitsubishi Zero was an incredibly versatile plane, but it was not an easy one to keep control of during combat. Many inexperienced pilots essentially did their best to do as much damage as possible before crashing and then just allowed it to happen when they did.
The sad thing is that half the problem was that they sent a whole bunch of their best pilots on kamikaze missions leading to this shortage of good Pilots
on top of this, the Zero was outmatched by Allied planes with support by their carriers (Japan lost all their carriers at Midway) meaning that in pretty much all circumstances the plane would go down regardless of strategy employed. Kamikaze pilots were using the most effective strategy that would lose the plane because all strategies would lose the plane.
Also because hundreds of pounds of metal were flying at them every minute that, in a numbers game, it became more efficient to die than to try and survive. Most of them were young and were sent off with the promise they would be remembered and revered. I try not to dwell on that too often.
And the chances of making it back were so low so having a group perform kamikaze attack with less training and more effect for less loss of life and plane is a “good” thing
@@no-lifenoah7861 they didn’t lose all their carriers at midway but they lost 4 of the big ones(not the most modern but some of the best crew and combat power) the still had the excellent Shōkaku and her sister ship
A LOT of things wrong here, gotta be honest... 1. No, they expected to come back unless they found a valuable target. They usually got to fly at least a couple of sorties 2. Noone opens the canopy to get a better view... It was used in movies so the audience cand better see the pilot's face and expression. In real life, you usually keep it open during taxi to keep the cabin cool, or you unlatch it if you make a landing outside the airfield, so if the fuselage bends it doesn't block you(this is still done with general aviation planes) 3. Helmets were and still are used to protect crew from the cold(it's freezing cold regardless of the canopy at altitude in an unpressurised airplane), noise, from hitting your head on something in the cabin, or from small shrapnel
American Anti-aircraft fire shot so many of these planes that crashing into their Warships made it the only way of hitting them. These attacks took place in late 1944 and the rest of 1945. By late 1942 the US ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE HAD BECOME SO EFFECTIVE THAT SO MANY JAPANESE PLANES WERE GETTING SHOT DOWN BEFORE THEY COULD DROP THEIR BOMBS OR TORPEDOS.
Ever since I was a preteen, that second point, about avoiding hitting their heads while in flight, has been what I've been saying. Glad to finally be validated.
Most of the kamikaze pilots were children taken and forced to fly with the only purpose of crashing. They werent even taught to land. So no, they didnt study their whole life
It should also be mentioned that not all kamikaze pilots knew they were on a one-way mission. Sometimes their tanks were filled mostly with water so they would run out of gas near their destination where they were finally informed of their "promotion." The helmet would have helped sell the ruse.
They also had a policy of one pilot, one ship. This was ridiculous as most planes missed their target. If they had planned to swarm ships with kamikazes the results might have been very different. But, as has already been pointed out, there was not a lot of intelligence to report back about the success of these operations. Thank goodness!
I highly doubt it was that complicated or that much thought put into it. I bet they were just so used to wearing it all the time and ritualistic put them on without thought.
Most of the kamikaze pilots were taught to fly just for the purpose of being a kamikaze pilot against their will. They werent given helmets for protection. They werent just your regular everyday pilots.
Kamikaze was actually safer and more effective than normal fighting if you look at the number of downed ships per shot down planes. Statistics are sometimes brutal.
These men were not heroic. Brave, sure. But ultimately they fought for imperial Japan, and you’re not exactly heroic if you’re fighting for a military that some have described as even worse than the Nazis.
"Remember, when you run out of munitions, you become the munitions. Go with honor"
minion banana 🍌🍌
The only way to go out
@Ritam Mahakur genius
thanks, if the mortar is gone, ill become the mortar 😁👍
@@DaniSC_real Your gonna hold a live frag grenade as well for that extra *pop*
I've held one of these hats in my own hands.
I knew an older gentlemen when I was a kid who served in the Pacific theater during WWII flying transport planes. After taking one island (sadly don't remember which) that didn't have quarters for all the troops, he was sleeping under the wings of his plane. He told me a kamikaze slammed into the next plane over, but due to some user or mechanical error, there was no explosion thankfully. After the higher-ups inspected the crash and decided to leave it til morning, he snuck over and took the kamikaze's hat as a souvenir. It was incredibly warm and had japanese writing on the inside. I'm not sure how many hats actually worn by kamikazes have survived to today, but I imagine this was a once in a lifetime opportunity for me to hold this bit of history in my own hands.
Very cool story. Thank you for sharing :)
Do you know what the writing said?
@@capncake8837 he probably didn't
@@capncake8837 Sadly no. And this was before smartphones, so I had no camera with me. I wish I had more details and more proof too, but sadly all I have is the story, the way I remember it, the way he remembered it lol.
I do seem to remember him saying he had it translated. I think he said one of the words was the city where the hat was manufactured, but I could be misremembering that. Sorry I don't have more.
TLDW the helmets weren't used to help 𝘧𝘰𝘳 a crash, it was used to help to 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰 the crash.
Brih
Doesn't matter egsdee
jesus pie
@@linjix same
@@SingularBubble sussy jesus
"Sir I dont have any bombs left!"
*you are the bomb*
Pilot go booooooooooooommmmmmmmmmm
Why thank you
@@iddennah8015 XD Nice one 🤣🤣🤣
the saddest part,
kamikaze pilots missed their targets most of the time
because at dive, they lose control of the plane because it doesn't have hydraulics
BUT
none came back to tell the rest.
Actually there were cases where the pilots fell out of the plane because of a malfunction and then surviving
That's not sad, they were fighting for the japanese.
@@Julio_Gomes doesn't chance the fact that it's a human life lost.
@@Julio_Gomes Not willingly
@@mamad0106 Or maybe they never reached to their destination, they just didn’t want to do it. Who’d know? No cameras or gps to follow their routes right?
Kazuo Odachi survived and he wrote a book about his experience as a Kamikaze Pilot. The book is The Last Kamikaze and I think people should read about how Kamikaze missions we're conducted and what led to it being implemented in Imperial Japan.
It wasn't all that glamorous but It certainly isn't what most people think it was.
Thanks, I'll look for it
Thanks ima read a little more of history
A huge reason for this tactic even existing was less about a cultural view on dying with honor and more based on a lack of qualified pilots by the end of the war. The Mitsubishi Zero was an incredibly versatile plane, but it was not an easy one to keep control of during combat. Many inexperienced pilots essentially did their best to do as much damage as possible before crashing and then just allowed it to happen when they did.
The sad thing is that half the problem was that they sent a whole bunch of their best pilots on kamikaze missions leading to this shortage of good Pilots
on top of this, the Zero was outmatched by Allied planes with support by their carriers (Japan lost all their carriers at Midway) meaning that in pretty much all circumstances the plane would go down regardless of strategy employed. Kamikaze pilots were using the most effective strategy that would lose the plane because all strategies would lose the plane.
Also because hundreds of pounds of metal were flying at them every minute that, in a numbers game, it became more efficient to die than to try and survive. Most of them were young and were sent off with the promise they would be remembered and revered. I try not to dwell on that too often.
And the chances of making it back were so low so having a group perform kamikaze attack with less training and more effect for less loss of life and plane is a “good” thing
@@no-lifenoah7861 they didn’t lose all their carriers at midway but they lost 4 of the big ones(not the most modern but some of the best crew and combat power) the still had the excellent Shōkaku and her sister ship
Kamikaze instructors be like:
"Watch carefully im only going to do this once"
“Now watch closely, I’m only gonna show you this once”.
“Wait can you do it again? I wasn’t looking”.
this made me giggle
@@lukasalma94 same lol
bro 💀
Bro 💀
A LOT of things wrong here, gotta be honest...
1. No, they expected to come back unless they found a valuable target. They usually got to fly at least a couple of sorties
2. Noone opens the canopy to get a better view... It was used in movies so the audience cand better see the pilot's face and expression. In real life, you usually keep it open during taxi to keep the cabin cool, or you unlatch it if you make a landing outside the airfield, so if the fuselage bends it doesn't block you(this is still done with general aviation planes)
3. Helmets were and still are used to protect crew from the cold(it's freezing cold regardless of the canopy at altitude in an unpressurised airplane), noise, from hitting your head on something in the cabin, or from small shrapnel
@Joshua Bursill "just trust me bro"
He literally said the third thing
@Joshua Bursill mainly, personal flight experience, and being around aircraft in general
@@spergalicious27 I wanted to adress the fact that an unpressurised plane is still really cold, regardless of how they keep the canopy
@@guywholikesplanes he said that dude
"Valuable ally ship"
The Allies: Huehuehue spam ship tactic good
This has passed the vibe check of the official cheese federation
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r/iamveryrandom
Wait I have seen 2 other comments like this by different people.are you a cult?Can I join?
@@Idk-dc7hv
shut up redditor
@@jesusguadalupe8396 to join say what I said in many other videos
I loved the part when the animator just had to swipe one of the pilots up and down violently.
Mosquitoes: 'bites and runs'
Bees:
American Anti-aircraft fire shot so many of these planes that crashing into their Warships made it the only way of hitting them. These attacks took place in late 1944 and the rest of 1945. By late 1942 the US ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE HAD BECOME SO EFFECTIVE THAT SO MANY JAPANESE PLANES WERE GETTING SHOT DOWN BEFORE THEY COULD DROP THEIR BOMBS OR TORPEDOS.
Well, he's got to survive all the way to the inevitable point of impact.
"Kamikaze pilots used helmets to protect them during missions, but it's not what you think."
This is a reference to an engineering channel, isn't it?
I didn’t know it was a helmet it looks like a cap you’d wear outside on a regular day
L8l
It's certainly a cap but I don't think a sane person would casually stroll around the park wearing one of these
"Crashing in the wrong place"
A rarely said sentence
the helmets also had comms in them. the radio was the most important piece of equipment to coordinate the attack
Fun fact the cockpit was locked so they couldn’t eject
Ever since I was a preteen, that second point, about avoiding hitting their heads while in flight, has been what I've been saying. Glad to finally be validated.
" *We need them alive for a little while* "
Kamikaze soldiers got my respect like the amount of courage you have to help your country but lose you life bassicly a sacrifice
They cared about their pilots so much🥰😘
wow this is short
Just like their lives were
If you're talking about the video length, it's a "CZcams Short"
as a kamikaze pilot i can confirm we wore helmets, i also died
Commander: Trust me you'll respawn.
imagine studying your whole life to become a pilot just to crash into a ship
Most of the kamikaze pilots were children taken and forced to fly with the only purpose of crashing. They werent even taught to land. So no, they didnt study their whole life
"I HAVE NO MORE AMMO!"
Kamikaze god: "You are the ammo my son"
"THX GO-"
*DIES*
Kami already means God
@@siege824s8 thx for the info?
@@siege824s8and kaze means servant.
Short but gold video
It should also be mentioned that not all kamikaze pilots knew they were on a one-way mission.
Sometimes their tanks were filled mostly with water so they would run out of gas near their destination where they were finally informed of their "promotion."
The helmet would have helped sell the ruse.
Bees stinging someone be like: “I AM THE AMMUNITION”
I had the same thought about wearing helmets while zip lining.
There weren't meant for protecting them from crashing
*They were meant for helping them in crashing.*
"The noises could be defeaning" like that's gonna matter
"You get a helmet"
"To protect me right?"
"Mostly to keep you on track"
"And to protect me, right?"
*moments before disaster*
I'm sorry, but with that ending quote, I had to let out a tiny childish giggle because it was to be expected, but I didn't.
Actually they had 9 chances to kamikaze, they wouldn't be executed if they return (because of lack of pilots and not finding the target)
"Ur the ammo son"
You should interview a Kamakazee pilot
Love these shorts!
They wore helmets because they needed protection up unto the point they crashed into the target? That would be my guess.
Did you even watch the vid
"crashing in the wrong place" that's one thing I thought I'd never hear
Imagine qualifying as a pilot but you get the kamikaze role
I would just fly off to somewhere else and live off-grid 🤷🏻♂️
That is not how it works
@Bonk better than death 🤷🏻♂️
@@dookie8649 if 1940s Japan found you, it’d be worse then death lol
@@jackpossibly115 facts
@@dookie8649 or even in the edo period
“It protects their eyesight so that they can die more efficiently.”
Kamikaze pilot teachers: pay attention I am only going to explain this once
This question is like asking "Why do suicide bombers wear vests?"
Because 👇
Y not
How dope would it be if they had a old school primitive go pro.
It wouldn't be
Like lethal injection a clean
the area before the injection
Every thousand feet is roughly 2 degrees Celsius colder, just for anyone who’s curious how much colder it gets for them.
They also had a policy of one pilot, one ship. This was ridiculous as most planes missed their target. If they had planned to swarm ships with kamikazes the results might have been very different. But, as has already been pointed out, there was not a lot of intelligence to report back about the success of these operations. Thank goodness!
R.I.K
(Rest In Kamikaze)
I highly doubt it was that complicated or that much thought put into it. I bet they were just so used to wearing it all the time and ritualistic put them on without thought.
Yeah people are just trying to fill the gap by cooking up stories
Most of the kamikaze pilots were taught to fly just for the purpose of being a kamikaze pilot against their will. They werent given helmets for protection. They werent just your regular everyday pilots.
@@SmoochThyCooch I'm sure they were while being taught to fly?
@@tyler70878 Not really. Japan was low on resources. Im surprised they wore helmets at all
@@ajmalk6533 ^^perfect alternate example
I could just imagine
"Here's a helmet"
"For my safety?"
"Pshh nah, for you to reach your target"
Japanese: "I'm going but I'm going with drips"
The good ones never made it past practice.😂😂😂
Wow! Incredibly short!!! Just like my... never mind...
lel
The First Guided Missile in History
Kamikaze was actually safer and more effective than normal fighting if you look at the number of downed ships per shot down planes. Statistics are sometimes brutal.
R.I.P
Who asked
i did
I did
Theres also the fact that pilots would actually return from missions if there was no available target
this video sounds like it's almost asking why kamikaze pilots wore clothes in general
They just want some drip in their last moments
I would ve never thought that someone ever said "to crash in the wrong place"💀
"You're on your own Noble, Carter out"
Back then we used peoples lives to send deadly explosives, today we send machine chips.
which are more valuable... :(
You: I wanna die. The Air Force: Great!!🤘👍
These men were so heroic.
These men were not heroic. Brave, sure. But ultimately they fought for imperial Japan, and you’re not exactly heroic if you’re fighting for a military that some have described as even worse than the Nazis.
@@casual_speedrunner1482 If you’re going by that logic the only Heroic soldiers of the 2nd world war we’re the Polish or the Finns and maybe Siam.
I've yet to see a museum in Japan acknowledge these pilots
Before a kamikaze pilot crashes: A DUTY HONOURABLY DISCHARGED
If you don’t get the reference then it’s a game ting
"Oh no I'm out of ammunition what do I do"remember you are the ammo
"The answer is complicated"
**proceeds to explain the answer in less than 60 seconds**
The vibration of that pilot- I'm dying
Give your animator a raise
Extra shrapnel to the explosion 💀
„The answer is complicated“
*The answer* : ends up being not complicated
Short Answer:
Make sure that you survive long enough until reached target
Kamikaze pilots are the definition of "never let them know your next move"
They were the first generation of manually guided missiles
Says it's complicated, explains perfectly.
Everyone talking about that battle ship in that scene
Me:*BASSMARCK*
Legends also say sucide bombers were inspired by kamikazi pilots
He said valuable 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 ships
Lvl 100 betrayal
TLDR; Planes are cold
"Wearing a helmet won't do much"
*Video games would like to know your location*
imagine going to the military just to find out ur gonna be a kamikaze pilot
Kamikaze: Im going to fly and smash myself to the enemy!
Someone: Alright before you do that safety first! 👍🏼
bro predicted the dallas crash at the end
Fun fact. Kamikaze pilots often came home.
We’re making it into the deck of a us warship with this one 💯💯🔥🔥
I heard Kamikaze pilots attended their own funerals.
I don't know what you mean, I use my blast protection helmet to save me from explosions all the time
Bro those movements with the turbulence thing 😂😂😂
"...final, explosive end" 💀
“If you ever run out of ammo, just remember, you can become the ammo if you put your mind to it”
-Kamikaze dude
Who here thought helmets where made to protect from crashes?
These Kamikaze pilots looks surprisingly American rather than Japanese
So basically the same answer for, "Why do we wear sunglasses during the day".
It helps.
Yeah but unless you’re a terrorist, you don’t go outside in the sun to blow up.