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    The Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka (櫻花, Ōka, "cherry blossom"; 桜花 in modern orthography) is a purpose-built, rocket-powered human-guided kamikaze attack-aircraft...
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  • Island. The aircraft later served as the mothership that carried the Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, a purpose-built anti-ship suicide weapon during the final years...
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    only other operational rocket-powered aircraft was the Japanese Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka which was a manned flying bomb. The world's first piloted rocket...
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    The First Naval Air Technical Bureau (Kugisho) in Yokosuka refined Ohta's idea. Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka rocket-powered aircraft, launched from bombers, were...
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  • bomb. Imanishi's Sonic Boom Squadron explores the last hours of a Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka pilot on August 6, 1945. Takahashi's Knight of the Iron Dragon tells...
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    Shinryu ever saw combat. The Japanese also produced approximately 850 Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka rocket-powered suicide attack aircraft during the Second World War...
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    as an important driver to Japanese war policies after 1943. The Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka (櫻花, "cherry blossom") was a purpose-built kamikaze aircraft employed...
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    comparable role, configuration, and era Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka Related lists List of aircraft of Japan during World War II List...
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    was never produced. Many sources apply the designation MXY8 to the Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka kamikaze weapon. Data from Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War General...
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  • The Yokosuka MXY9 Shuka (秋花, "Autumn flower") was a projected development of the MXY8 training glider, adding a small motorjet engine, the Tsu-11. It was...
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  • of Nicaragua Baka (Japanese word), meaning "fool; idiot; foolish" Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, or Baka, Japanese suicide planes BAKA, the Muslim chaplain service...
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    Blimp Columbia (N4A), class GZ-20, and Gondola of Goodyear Pilgrim A Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka kamikaze aircraft A Pegasus XL air-launched rocket. A General Atomics...
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  • slang for the Imperial Japanese Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka kamikaze flying bomb. The earliest recorded usage was in Newsweek on May 7, 1945, "American forces have...
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  • led the performance-related design of the kamikaze attack aircraft Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka during World War II. Washizu was born in Aichi Prefecture on March...
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    with two specific Second World War weapons, the German V-1 and the Japanese Ohka. The former was unpiloted, as the first known cruise missile ever deployed...
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    melee. Suddenly, out of the maelstrom of planes, a rocket-powered Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka piloted flying bomb plunged toward her at a speed in excess of 500 knots...
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    the first US warship to be damaged or sunk by the rocket powered Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka suicide flying bomb. Mannert Lincoln Abele was born on 11 July 1903...
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    floor contains a Yokosuka D4Y bomber and Type 97 Chi-Ha recovered from Yap Island, along with a Kaiten-type torpedo and replicas of an Ohka Model 11 aircraft...
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    with a side room containing a Kamikaze exhibit, which contains a Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka II (BAPC 58), models of Japanese aircraft and final letters from...
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    4850) survived the war in excellent condition. A variant of the Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, built in Japan towards the end of WW2, was powered by a Ishikawajima...
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  • Ōka, Ohka, Ouka (おうか) or Ooka (おおか) may refer to: Ōka (桜花(おうか)), blossom of cherry tree Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka (桜花(おうか), Ōka), a Japanese kamikaze aircraft...
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    less stable burster schimose (picric acid). It was also used in the Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, a kamikaze antishipping human-guided rocket aircraft. Trinitroaniline...
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  • Trainer Ida 1939 1389 IJA Yokosuka K5Y1 Willow 1933 5770 IJN Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka Model 43 K-1 Kai n/a 1944 45 IJN Yokosuka MXY-8 Akigusa n/a 1945 50-60...
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    Kawanishi Baika (IJN) Leonidas Squadron, KG 200's "suicide unit". Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, the Japanese suicide rocket aircraft. Bishop 2002, p. 320. Renneberg...
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  • exception of the anti-ship air-launched, rocket-powered, human-piloted Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, "Kamikaze" flying bomb did not see combat in World War II. Prior...
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    role, configuration, and era Mitsubishi A6M7 Nakajima Ki-43-IIIa Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka Related lists List of aircraft of Japan during World War II List...
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    World War II Ruhrstahl X-4 - Max Kramer's air-to-air guided missile Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka Project Pigeon LBD-1 Gargoyle GB-1 GB-4 GT-1 (missile) http://www...
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  • Related development Kawanishi Baika Mitsubishi J8M Rikugun Ki-202 Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Bachem Ba 349...
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    Flyer – replica Yakovlev Yak-18A Yakovlev Yak-3U - replica Yokosuka D4Y3 Suisei Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka The Military Vehicle Corps, often referred to as the Motor...
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    Valiant Waco 10 GXE Waco CG-4A Hadrian Waco UEC Wright Flyer (replica) Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka 11 Planes of Fame Air Museum, another air museum located at Chino...
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