They are interesting, but if I don't have anything to add I keep schtum.
Well except here & now....
There is a side interest in aviation here, can you tell us anything about Japanese military pilots?
I don't know much about the pilots but there are some common misconceptions.
Yukio Seki is consider one of the greatest Japanese fighter aces ever. There is a temple in Japan dedicated to the Kamikaze and this photograph is displayed there. I have not been to the temple myself. In his final mission, Seki did fly a mission as a Kamikaze pilot."
Yukio Seki (関 行男,
Seki Yukio, August 29, 1921 - October 25, 1944) was a Japanese
naval aviator of the
Imperial Japanese Navy during
World War II. As a
kamikaze pilot, Lieutenant Seki led one of the three fighter groups of the second official kamikaze attack in World War II (the first official attack was an unsuccessful attempt led by
Yoshiyasu Kunō [
ja] on October 21, 1944). Seki's final action took place on October 25, 1944, during the
Battle of Leyte Gulf. He led a unit of five bomb-armed
Mitsubishi Zero fighters, crash-diving his plane deliberately into the
USS St. Lo's flight deck, being the first kamikazes to sink an enemy ship." --- Wikipedia.
There are many photos of Japanese pilots on the internet that are identified as Kamikaze, but most are wrong. True Kamikaze pilots has swords as they are Samurai.
Most of the Japanese pilots wore the Seikosha 93 instrument clock version and Seikosha 100 instrument clock.
These are surprisingly not uncommon.
However, the upside down Seikosha 93 pocket watch is a very very rare variant. The enamel dial is fired upside down because it was designed to be readable when held up with one hand. Also the instrument clock was set
from the bottom of the clock and it too has the seconds at 12.
