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Published: November 6, 2007
Kamikaze pilots had some reasons to wear headgear Strange but true
Q :Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets when they were going to die anyway?
A :In the wake of military setbacks in 1944, the Japanese military launched a campaign of kamikaze attacks in which pilots attempted to crash their planes into U.S. warships, says Cornell's Robert Frank in "The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas.”
The aviator helmet had become emblematic of what ...
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