[TalonDJ]

JAPAN: 103 carrier-based aircraft of the USN’s Task Force 38 are launched at 0415 hours local and attack airfields in the Tokyo area. They encounter heavy aerial opposition and shoot down 32 Japanese aircraft. A second strike is cancelled while it is en route to objectives; pilots jettison their ordnance and return to their carriers. The last aircraft shot down by the USN in World War II occurs at 1400 hours when an F6F-5 Hellcat pilot of Fighting Squadron Thirty One (VF-31) in the light aircraft carrier USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) shoots down a “Judy” carrier bomber (Kugisho D4Y Navy Carrier Bomber Suisei) at sea.

Are you sure this is the right year? This certainly shouldn't be the LAST shoot down... and TF38 only was FORMED this month of '43.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Are you sure this is the right year?

Nope. It is posted in 1945 as well as 1943. I alerted the webmaster and he will probably delete the duplicate shortly.

Good eye.