Japanese aerial exterminating action?

[Leo Etgen]

Hello

There is not much to add to what Larry has already pointed out but I would like to add that in reading various accounts of the war in China and the Pacific one comes across mention of Japanese aircrews refusing to abandon their shot down aircraft and instead preferring to follow the fate of the aircraft to its ultimate end. That I know of they were the only combatants that did this and I would certainly believe that this attitude would go someway towards explaining their practice of attacking enemy pilots that baled out.

Horrido!

Leo