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unusual facts about Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka


Sonderkommando Elbe

This is quite unlike the Japanese kamikaze attacks against Allied ships in the Pacific Theatre, in which Japanese forces loaded their pilots' aircraft with explosives, most often within the structure of the aircraft, and therefore had no chance of survival, as the explosives detonated with the crash of the aircraft itself - purpose-designed into the nose of the dedicated Ohka rocket-powered suicide aircraft.



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