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What the kamikazes wore was not a helmet as we know it today, but a cap made of leather, canvas or thick fabric. Often lined with fur, this cap protected the brains of suicide pilots from the wind and cold – after all, during the period when the kamikazes were in action (around 1945), they flew with the windows of their cabins open, to be able to pinpoint your target accurately. The fashion for wearing a hat or hood, by the way, was a widespread custom among fighter pilots of the Second World War, whatever the country involved. In general, the basic outfit of military aviators at that time included a cap, aviation glasses, headphones and microphones for radio communication. The forerunners of current helmets only became part of pilots’ equipment at the end of World War II, when plastic resin hulls began to be supplied to American pilots.