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Old 13th April 2015, 01:12
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Re: triva question

The last pilots KIA during WWII were from VF-88 that was engaged by Japanese fighters near Tokyo shortly after hearing the message announcing the end of the war.

I'm away from my books, and on the Internet I saw either that three or four pilots were shot down. Given that only two of the 6 intercepted F6Fs were not shot down, the lost pilots were shot down in an unknown order, so it will be difficult to find the last one.
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