The Reverend was clearly mistaken, it was a passenger who swam to shore.
Sounds more like the Reverend thought that the swimmer was the the pilot, but he wasn’t.
The Reverend was clearly mistaken,
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Clearly. That’s one of my points. The only source for Yamamoto’s version of what happened is the priest, and the priest has said things at odds with what others have said. The priest ought to know a good deal about what happened with Fuddy, since he was there at the care home where he gave her the last rites.