That almost reads like an after action report, short and to the point.
He mentions the lack of pilot skills that the Japanese were experiencing by then in the war. The Japanese flight training leading up to the war and that continued until the very limited training given the Kamikazes was a brutal 2 year program. They never shortened it for combat pilot training. Prior to WWII US aviation training was a year. When the US started preparations for war prior to Dec 7 41 one thing they did was to shorten training to 6 months for pilots. Once trained pilots were sent to squadrons where the older more experienced pilots made the fly then fly some more. After we were in the war pilots were rotated back to the US to form new squadrons. Again they made the new guys fly, then fly some more passing on their hard won knowledge of actual combat. By the time pilots actually deployed to war they had 6 months of flight school and another 6 months intensive training in an operation squadron. The training at squadron level not only covered bombing, torpedo and or dogfighting but navigation and night flying too. In short the US adapted flight training to meet needs while the Japanese did not. The Japanese like the Germans sent their pilots out where they flew missions from day one until the end of the war or until the were killed or shot down and captured. Very few were rotated back to train new pilots with the new guys graduating flight school and being sent directly into combat. Lack of training showed up both in the Pacific and in Europe.
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