2006-11-11 11:18:02 · 13 answers · asked by m c 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
Hmm, third time this has been asked this week?
The helmets had the headsets in them, so they could talk to people.
2006-11-11 11:29:04 · answer #1 · answered by Chris H 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Actually, there were three main reasons that they (and MOST pilots of the era) wore those leather helmets. 1- to keep their heads warm, the cockpits were not heated, so they wore lined leather helmets (and jackets and gloves). 2- to contain their earphones for communication. 3- to fasten their goggles and oxygen masks on. Many had an up-turned flap on the top where they also wore an emblem.
2006-11-12 01:44:53 · answer #2 · answered by Dusty 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Dusty is closest, but pilots at that time mainly wore helmets to protect themselves from taking a hard bump to the head. Flight, especially not at low altitudes and in combat conditions and in piston-engined planes, is not smooth. And inexperienced pilots, as most of these guys were, were shakier than their more experienced (but mostly dead, by 1944) brethern.
A hard bump could knock them out and make their Ultimate Sacrifice even less meaningful.
2006-11-12 12:21:03 · answer #3 · answered by Bryce 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
this may have been asked this week and before that. and Kris and others are close they have transmitters maybe ..but no.. and they did not have mp3's either. All Kami's had Bad Hair Days.
hence the wore helmets hehe :) couldn't resist!!
2006-11-11 20:57:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
well eventhough they are suicide pilots as the term "Kamikaze" means, they are just to wear it before their suicide attempt and not die through accident :)
2006-11-13 01:03:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They had communications equipment located in their helmets. The atc directed them to their targets to bomb and attack them.
2006-11-11 20:30:21 · answer #6 · answered by bb 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I'd imagine that they sort of needed to survive long enough to actually reach their targets.
2006-11-12 03:37:04 · answer #7 · answered by IceTrojan 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Possibly to keep from hurting their head as they crashed into battleships.
2006-11-11 22:00:53 · answer #8 · answered by melvin-miller@sbcglobal.net 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Why did they wear shoes? Or pants?
2006-11-12 11:02:06 · answer #9 · answered by DemoDicky 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
to communicate with their home base...
2006-11-11 23:34:36 · answer #10 · answered by bigztick 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋