Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: yla@IDA.LiU.SE (Yngve Larsson) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Saburo Sakai (was: Re: dogfighting) Message-ID: <7640@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 21 Jun 89 02:46:32 GMT References: <7022@cbnews.ATT.COM> <7128@cbnews.ATT.COM> <7210@cbnews.ATT.COM> <7395@cbnews.ATT.COM> Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden Lines: 20 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Yngve Larsson In article <7600@cbnews.ATT.COM> fiddler@Sun.COM write: > >pilots available to Japan, but they were pretty rare. Saburo Sakai, >for instance, even though after Guadalcanal he was missing one eye. > I seem to remember that at the end of the war, Saburo Sakai still had almost no rank whatsoever, in spite of being one of the top scorers. I think he was something like sergeant or so. Is this true, or am I making a fool of myself? If this is true, why is this so? Insubordination or lack of social standing? Yngve Larsson -- Yngve Larsson UUCP: ...mcvax!enea!liuida!yla Dept of CIS Internet: yla@ida.liu.se Linkoping University, Sweden Phone: +46-13-281949