Captain Yellin is an amazing man and seems to be in remarkable good health. Although he stated he flew the final combat mission on 8/14/45 and his wing man was the last combat death of WWII on that date the hostilities continued until the surrender on 9/2/45. What is believed to be the last aerial combat death happened 4 days later, the only reason I know this is because of my interest in aircraft and the last death reported happened aboard the then brand new B-32 Dominator. There were only a few built and it barely saw service in the war. It was the back up design for the B-29 in case it failed as the B-29 and B-32 were designed to carry the first nuclear bombs as no other aircraft could do it. On a side note the R&D cost to develop the B-29 was greater than the cost of the Manhattan Project.
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