This made me laugh

[dt3]

It was on CNN's quotes from the week:

"My dream has come true. When I go back I can live in peace for the rest of my life."

• FRED MITCHELL
• an 81-year-old survivor of the U.S.S. Drexler, a destroyer sunk by kamikaze off Okinawa in 1945, after shaking hands in reconciliation with a former kamikaze pilot Friday

A former kamikaze pilot? WTF???

 

[Peter Parka]

He obviously wasn't very good at it!

 

[Tim]

I was watching the History channel once and this show came on about the kamikaze pilots... It showed footage of them in formation during some sort of ritual before take-off. It was weird knowing that they would never step foot on the ground again... then it dawned on me... they were all wearing those leather helmets and parachutes. WTF? why would they need that stuff on? One of the great mysteries of the past :dunno

 

[dt3]

I was watching the History channel once and this show came on about the kamikaze pilots... It showed footage of them in formation during some sort of ritual before take-off. It was weird knowing that they would never step foot on the ground again... then it dawned on me... they were all wearing those leather helmets and parachutes. WTF? why would they need that stuff on? One of the great mysteries of the past :dunno

This guy musta had a really good leather helmet then

 

[All Else Failed]

There was a German Luftwaffe unit that crashed their planes into B-52's intentionally to bring them down during the closing months of the war. They didn't think of themselves as "Kamikazes" though. They would bail out before the plane hit, or attempt to after they clipped the bomber with their wings.