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04-03-2010, 12:49 AM
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Kamikaze-go Tokyo-London Flight: New Year Cards for 1938
The Asahi Shimbun's Mitsubishi Ki-15 prototype Kamikaze-go flew from Tokyo to London in April 1937 on a goodwill trip marking the coronation of King George VI. Pilot Masaaki Iinuma and navigator Kenji Tsukagoshi completed the journey in about 51 hours, setting the first international aviation record recognized by the FAI for a Japanese crew. The cards were produced in 1937 as greetings for New Year 1938. They depict children waving to the aircraft, a boy carrying Japanese and British flags, the plane above Mount Fuji, a route map between Tokyo and London, ships and flying boats, and Iinuma standing beside the propeller. Japanese greetings on the designs include phrases for New Year congratulations and New Year's Day. Also covered here: Photographic Time Line  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  · |
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04-03-2010, 12:58 AM
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Re: Kamikaze-go Tokyo-London Flight: New Year Cards for 1938
Interesting to see that Kamikaze wasn't always associated with planes being used as the bombs themselves.
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04-03-2010, 01:25 AM
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Re: Kamikaze-go Tokyo-London Flight: New Year Cards for 1938
Nice pics, but why is the kid have a union jack in the last one? Britain was allied with the US. Weird. |
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04-03-2010, 01:29 AM
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Re: Kamikaze-go Tokyo-London Flight: New Year Cards for 1938
if you read the paragraph with the pix it mentions that these were to celebrate the first flight from tokyo to london by a japanese air craft. so there's your link. also remember that this is 1937 when the world war didnt start till a few years later. |
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04-03-2010, 01:56 AM
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Re: Kamikaze-go Tokyo-London Flight: New Year Cards for 1938
Ah cool, I read somewhere that the only people eligible to be kamikaze pilots were ones with no family. In one family, the wife had killed her children and herself just so that her husband could die for Japan and bring honor to there family and the spirit world. Hard to bask in honor when you are dead. |
