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WW II JPNese kamikaze pilots were little more than boys. They were trained on the most rudimentary of flying techniques. They were to follow a leader and when the flight got to the targets, the leader turned to go home and the rest of the flight dove to the targets.Since when can you just walk into flight school like that and learn how to fly in six months ? What is this, like getting a concealed carry license ? Maybe it was true back then but it just seems suspicious.
When I was getting my license in high school, my ground school time was approximately the same as the kamikaze pilot training time.
In 1941, Japanese naval combat pilots had an average of 700 hours of flight experience, and army combat pilots had an average of 500 hours. By 1944, the average hours of flight training had dipped down to 300 hours for the Japanese navy and 200 hours for the Japanese army. By comparison, the tokko tai pilots received 40 to 50 hours of flight training. Kamikaze pilots were trained for approximately seven days. In the first few days they learned to take off. In the following days, they learned to fly in formation; the last days were devoted to study and practice in how to attack a target.
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