[Homer_J_Simpson]

Homer: His chances of surviving past teenage would undoubtedly improve if he switched to surface ships.

Jacquerie: Three times as many sailors were KIA in the Guadalcanal campaign as soldiers and marines combined.

By 1944 when Wherly would have arrived on the scene I bet that ratio had changed. In any case, a heavy bomber crew in the ETO remained at high risk throughout the war.

[Jacquerie]

Yeah, he could have arrived in time for the Kamikaze waves of 1944.