[colorado tanker]

The odds are very high that grinning Japanese pilot did not survive the war.

[Skooz]

Almost certain.

The Japanese naval air force was wiped from the skies 1942 - 1945. By the end of the war, almost no veteran pilots remained.

[wideminded]

The odds are very high that grinning Japanese pilot did not survive the war.

I heard an interview once with a Japanese pilot involved in the Pearl Harbor attack. He described how his plane had lurched upward when he dropped the heavy torpedo bomb he was carrying.