Japanese aircrew bailouts, prisoners?

[mars]

Originally Posted by Laurent Rizzotti

Not my best knowledge area, but it seems to me that the percentage of Japanese airmen lost over enemy territory that surrendered was far higher than the percentage of infantrymen in the same situation.One book that may be interesting on the subject (I don't have it):http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/se...ks/STRANG.html

That is exactly my point, the percentage of Japanese airmen lost over enemy territory that became POW were much higher than infrantrymen, and to less extent, this rule also applies to Japanese sailers, if they did not choose to go down whith the ship, then they would much easier to give up, for example, I recall about 20 Japanese sailers lost at sea after their ships sunk in the battle of Middleway, surrendered to US navy without offering any resistance. (Gordon W. Prange's "Miracle at Midway"0