"L. P. LePage" wrote:

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Saburo Sakai the number two Jap Ace was shot up by flying betreen two B-25's
as reported in his book
"SAMURAI" He spent months recovering and lost the use of one eye.

ISTR that Sakai was badly wounded (as above) when he attacked a flight of SBDs
which he mistook for Wildcats, near Guadalcanal on August 7th, 1942. No B-25s
involved.

Guy