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RE: The only Bomber type in the World to ever deliver an Atomic Bomb in wartime, is still flying today!
sir smithlabs! oh how interesting! and this Japanese officer and what he wrote was so true but what is a Kaiten?
The Kaiten was a torpedo with a driver. The retirement plan was poor....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiten
:)Kaiten
Kaiten (回天, literal translation: "Return to Heaven", commonly rendered as "turn of the Heaven's will", "the heaven shaker") were manned torpedoes and suicide craft, used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of World War II.