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Kamikaze Cruise Missile: Flying the Ohka
Ever wonder what it was like to fly the Ohka “Baka” bomb? This account is by one of the few men who did and survived. Excerpted from the diary of Masa’aki Saeki, Ohka pilot, Jinrai Butai, and translated by Nicholas Voge. The only way into the K-1 from the bomber was via a square hatch in the bottom of the fuselage. We called it the ‘coffin lid’, as directly below it was K-1’s open cockpit...
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