Cardboard_killer
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BTW, one of the most fascinating statistics of the war to me is that fact that an English bomber pilot, who was in it for the duration, that joined in 1941 was less likely to have survived the war than a kamikaze pilot that joined in 1945! The kamikaze pilots often never found targets because they hardly knew how to fly, let alone follow the leader that navigated to the target. So there were more than a few kamikaze pilots that had multiple missions because they got lost when they fell out of formation, and many that never found anything, and then died when they ran out of fuel searching for a target, or searching for somewhere to land. The British system was brutal, as was the German. The US crews rotated out of combat missions, famously, after 25 missions, IIRC.
