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Originally Posted by Antoine
Out standing AOTA volume, in many ways.
Excellent reading so far.
What was the fate of IJN A5M pilot YAMASHITA Shishiro (page 30)?
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According to ace and later ROCAF general Y. T. Loh, Yamashita was living in Lanchow (Lanzhou) with his Chinese wife at the end of the war. He taught maths and crypto-analysis(!) in a school there. As far as we know, he did not leave China for Taiwan when the Communist took over in 1949.
Loh kept his promise to not reveal Yamashita's defection to the Chinese for 30 years - and more. By the time the story was published in the Chinese Air Force Magazine in the 1980's - almost 50 years had elapsed,
Loh clearly wanted to avoid trouble for Yamashita during the turbulent years of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. It is unclear whether Yamashita was able to hide his identity during those crazy years ...