suicide sotie?

0Perhaps you mean "sorties." (individual flights going out on missions)0-

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0 So01b00r02b00tie is the word, meaning a military mission, usually used in air strikes, I believe. It's borrowed from the French (exit), which has the stress on the second syllable, but American dictionaries allow for the stress on either syllable. 0-

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00I'm pretty sure, but just to be on the safe side, and to bother people a little more, so when they say 2000 Japanese sorties were mounted, that means 2000 Japanese kamikaze pilots went on the mission, right?0-

0My interpretation would be 2000 seperate missions. It's not known how many planes were involved in each of the sorties.0-

0Ah, ok, so it's not the number of pilots but the number of missions.. made a boo boo. 02br
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00Thanks GG.0-

0or a boo hoo -02br
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00My dictionary says "a single flight of an airplane on a combat mission." This comports with my sense of the usage. And these were sort of solo by nature.0-

0I don't think so - but I really don't know for sure. I think that if you and I were pilots together, we'd keep track of how many sorties we'd EACH been on, but we could very well have gone out on most of them together. Avagni participated in 32 sorties over the course of his time in England, but GG, having sustained an injury, paritcipated in only 12 before moving to a role in logistics.02br

0Hi GG, 02br
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00I think I'm gonna be sick the next time we go on a suicide sortie together.02br
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00Best wishes, - A.0-

0Someone wrote in Wikipedia that it is the number of planes.02br
00"Early successes, such as the sinking of the 01i00St. Lo02i00 were followed by an immediate expansion of the program, and over the next few months over 2,000 planes made such attacks." 02br
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00The planes were heavily loaded with explosives