The last fighter pilot of WWII

[Locutus]

Capt. Jerry Yellin, from Fairfield, Iowa, flew the final combat mission in World War II. World War II veterans visit Iwo Jima for the 70th anniversary Mar. 21 in commemoration of the end of World War II.

https://www.dvidshub.net/video/395572/jerry-yellin-world-war-ii-veteran-interview#.Vu-xQXrBH9J

 

[selfsame]

It may be this man is a good man, so God has given him a long life; he might not have killed others; it does not mean that he was a pilot: that he killed anyone.

In wars there are so many incidents and examples: some men deliberately let their bombs go wrong so as not to kill people, and their bullets deliberately not hitting the target of people.

This is specially so if they are obliged to do their military actions, but they evade killing people; so God gives them a long life in this world.

While if they kill people, God certainly makes some incidents by which they may be killed in the same way.

Jesus Christ told Simon Peter to return his sword into its sheath; because anyone killing by the sword, so by the sword he will be killed.

 

[Curious Cdn]

My dad was flying a patrol in the Indian Ocean at the same time that the Japanese were signing the surrender on the Missouri. He's no longer alive, though. I wonder if that "final combat mission" is a U.S. only thing or does it also include the rest of the Allies? ... or do they even exist?

 

[lone wolf]

Search records. Did your dad launch before Yellin left the ground?

 

[Curious Cdn]

Search records. Did your dad launch before Yellin left the ground?

My dad wasn't a fighter pilot. He was commanding a huge Sunderland flying boat for an RAF squadron (205), at the time. They and their companion PBY Catalinas used to patrol for 18 hours at a time (doing the sort of work that Auroras do for us, now). He started in wartime and ended in peacetime and the patrol would have been times longer than that of a fighter. They wouldn't have been the only aircraft in the air, at that time either. The claim is nice and I'm sure that the cold guy's fighter patrol was one of the last but I doubt the historic accuracy of it. The US pilots wouldn't know or care about any other air force, probably. Around the Pacific, there would have been dozens, maybe hundreds of aircraft going every which way while fully armed, that day. My dad's plane was armed and ready to attack submarines, etc. if necessary as was their regular job.