why were the kamidakze japanese soldiers wearing a protective cap ?
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So something small like shrapnel or a bullet wouldn't kill them before they got to where they were going.
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If this is for school I would hit the text. There are many answers and your teacher might be looking for a specific one. If it vague then I would say soldiers. They lay down their lifes everyday to keep us all free.\nHere is a web site: http://www.sermonillustrator.org/minisermons/folder2/THE%20ULTIMATE%20SACRIFICE.htm\nGood luck to you.
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To keep the People safe from their own government.
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It's a tradition passed down from the medieval knights. 2 Knights would approach and lift their helmet visors to expose their faces in a sign of friendship and respect. For a full historical brief - see the link below.
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i havent heard of any german soldiers doing this.  but i have heard of japanese doing up to 30 years after the war ended
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First and foremost we were not prepared for the war.  Secondly, our army was not trainned to fight in high altitude war.  Thirdly, we did not have adequate protective devices and cloths in a very cold atmosphere.
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These guys are all being literal.\n\nRallying in baseball is when a team strings together some hits and scores some runs, usually when they're behind late in a game.\n\nFans sometimes wear what's come to be called a rally cap for this.  A rally cap is basically a baseball cap that's been turned inside out and flipped into some completely ridiculous position on the head.\n\nExample:  The Yankees headed to the 9th inning trailing by 2 runs... but rallied in the 9th to send the game into extra innings.  See what I mean?
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There were 2 large military hospitals, with full surgical staff. One at Tonsanute and one at Cam Rhan Bay. I should think that either of them would have handled the initial treatment, with evacuation probably being to one the hospitals in Japan.
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My first reason is that the Japanese would have never surrendered without a full scale invasion of the Japanese mainland if we had not shown such distructive power.  The Japanese were not afraid of death, and would do anything to protect their Emperor, which is part of the reason why we made sure that the Emperor became just a figurehead in Japan after they finally surrendered.\n\nMy second reason is that it saved countless American and Japanese lives.  A full scale invasion of the Japanese mainland was projected to cost at least 1 million American lives.\n\nMy third reason is that America was already wary of Russia at this point.  We needed to make sure that once WWII was over, Russia would see us as a threat, so that Communism could not easily be spread to the US.
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In the second world war aircraft carries were limited on air defense in comparison to toady's naval carriers. There would be two lines of defense on a carrier of world war two. The first line was the fighter cap usually posted close to the carrier and then vectored in by the ships radar. If a Japanese plane got through the fighter cap the ship was limited to its anti aircraft guns. These would be of various caliber mounted on several locations on the ship. Americans had some of the best anti aircraft ammunition of the war, as they were the first to invent the proximity fuse on larger caliber rounds. The way anti aircraft fire worked before the advent of proximity fuses was they had a timing fuse on the shell they had to pre-set the shell to explode at a specific altitude before firing it. The proximity fuse had a fuse that detonated the shell close to large metallic objects. The use of missiles for downing aircraft was pioneered in world war two by the Germans using rockets and radio controlled devices. To my knowledge they never shot down a plane with this technology mainly due to the fact like all of the German wonder weapons it was to little to late, thankfully.
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to keep them warm\ncamouflage against enemies\nused as a show(display 4 mates or bluff fighting)
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It's a short stick with a really ornate end cap. It's about the size of a stick of Dynamite. Use is a mystery to me I suspect it is used in hand to hand fighting.
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Very good and very wise question.  Almost an oxymoron, however they had to protect their heads from minor injuries so they could use their head for a major injury. Thanks for the best answer! You rock dude!  Keep up the good work!
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Oh you must be talking about axel rose. This isn't a patch its what is called a distinctive unit insignia in army terms but is commonly called a unit crest. They are usually the symbols of a regiment sized unit. They are metal and worn on the shoulders of the dress uniform, and on the new army black beret. The unit is the 32nd armored, its  an armored unit, and two of the battalions was stationed in Kirch Goens germany in the 80s. It was part of the 3rd armored division. There are stores on line that sell these things. There is a kind of rmy urban legend that Axel Rose was in the army and in this unit at Kirch Goens. No Bio of his matches this..Ive met GIs who swore it was true,so this might make a good question ;)
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Why Is It That KamaKazie Pilots Wore Helmits
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After a great defeat, normally the victor would take the head of the leader.  His vassels, the samurai, sometimes would kill themselves, both as a show of loyalty, even unto death, and to purify themselves of the dishonor of failing their master.  \n\nThe key to the code of honor of the samurai can be summed up in the opening to "Bushido Shoshinshu", the "Code of the Samurai":  \n"One who is supposed to be a warrior considers it his formost concern to keep death in mind at all times, every day and every night, from the morning of New Year's Day through the night of New Year's Eve."\n\nnext sentence explains why:\n"As long as you keep death in mind at all times, you will also fulfill the ways of loyalty and familial duty."
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Japan and Germany have a standing Army, Air Force, and Navy.\n\nThe idea is, if you can defend yourself, people are more willing to negotiate.\n\nIn EVERY CASE, where people laid down weapons, there was a massacre.  EVERY CASE.  \n\nYou may have a pure heart, but your enemies must also.