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Longjumping_Owl5740 t1_je7dknw wrote

You're probably right, the article used as a source for that claim on Wikipedia even goes on to say that claim makes no sense.

>Johnson’s claims about the origins of Terramycin were inaccurate. Ehrlich’s employer didn’t develop Terramycin; a different company, Pfizer, applied for the patent in 1949, after Terramycin was isolated from a soil sample from Terre Haute, Indiana. Ehrlich wasn’t involved. Additionally, companies were racing to find new antibiotics; if Terramycin had in fact been discovered in 1944, there was no reason a company would wait five years to patent it.

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duglarri t1_je7a7d2 wrote

There was the US Navy program in the Pacific in 1943 that resulted in video-guided kamikaze drones that may have actually been the inspiration for the real kamikazes. The Japanese didn't start deploying Kamikazes until very late 1944- prior to that, though, the would have seen American "planes" diving and crashing into Japanese targets in the Pacific, part of trials of some very effective drones by the Navy.

The drones actually worked very well, with success rates of around 25%, compared to bombing hit rates of 2% for conventional attacks. And the drone attacks were risk-free for the crews, because they stayed kilometers away from the targets. Zero casualties in all the test missions they flew.

But the Navy brass in their infinite wisdom killed the project because they felt they had enough conventional aircraft available to do the job, and losing five or ten aircrew on any particular target was perfectly fine as far as they were concerned.

So American drones may have been the inspiration for the Kamikaze.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/drone-strike-180964753/

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Psych_Crisis t1_je78xmm wrote

We have a lot of weird things that we make sacred in my country. It's not all inherently bad, and every country should have it's on flavor, but yeah, we like graves.

Fast food. Baseball. Graves.

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