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James

December 08, 2020 11:06AM

Registered: 13 years ago
Posts: 984

Heck of a trinket to keep laying around.

There is a high chance that the pilot who dropped that particular bomb did NOT get to enjoy a long and full life. Over half of the IJN air crewmen who flew in the Pearl harbor strike were dead within a year, and relatively few of them survived the entire war. Most of the survivors made it through due to other injuries keeping them grounded, like Fuchida breaking both his legs at Midway. The IJN did not rotate pilots out of combat to the same extent the U.S. did.

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NNG - A narrow miss by a Japanese bomb fragment 79 years ago	Olaf Rasmussen	December 07, 2020 08:33PM
Re: NNG - A narrow miss by a Japanese bomb fragment 79 years ago	Sandiapaul	December 08, 2020 03:51AM
Re: NNG - A narrow miss by a Japanese bomb fragment 79 years ago	Kelly Anderson	December 08, 2020 06:46AM
Re: NNG - A narrow miss by a Japanese bomb fragment 79 years ago	James	December 08, 2020 11:06AM
Re: NNG - A narrow miss by a Japanese bomb fragment 79 years ago	randyr	December 08, 2020 01:40PM
Re: NNG - A narrow miss by a Japanese bomb fragment 79 years ago	Dave Peterson	December 08, 2020 05:42PM

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