Oh shit! LOL! ROTFLMAO!!! This thread has really hit rock bottom and deviated into weird, weird humour...just the sort of thing that tickles my fancy. I am no longer mad at anyone, I am too amused.

Actually, though, Saburo Sakai and both his wingmen, plus the superlative young ace Kaneyoshi Muto all survived an early kamikaze mission...for the simple reason that they failed (under pretty vile weather conditions) to find any American ships, and finally flew back to base when they hit the halfway point of their fuel. They had been attacked on the way out by literally hundreds of Hellcats, and it was a bloody miracle that any of them survived at all (most of the Japanese planes in their small group were quickly shot down). Sakai and his friends escaped by plunging straight into a thunderhead (an extremely dangerous thing to do), and lost the Hellcats. No one criticized them for coming back. In fact, the commander who had sent them out pretty much begged their forgiveness for having done so in the first place. He admitted that it had been a completely futile gesture in the face of overwhelming American forces. In the late days of the war, the young and inexperienced Japanese pilots were almost as likely to die on a conventional mission as on a kamikaze mission anyway. Only the veterans had any real chance of survival. Thus, to volunteer as a kamikaze only made official what was pretty much one's guaranteed fate at that point...for the inexperienced.

Troll - indignant, are you? Ha! My chinchilla snorts in your general direction, and my dachshund lifts his leg.