Sugimoto died from starvation, and his last words were, "Eat my flesh and blood, you must survive." Yanagiya survived the war. He thought the result of the Yamamoto mission was his shame, not the thing to be proud of. He kept silent until a non-fiction writer, Akira Yoshimura interviewed him 30 years later in mid-1970s. Yanagiya died on Feb. 29, 2008, at age of 88. His record He was credited with 8 victories. In addition, he was credited with 18 shared victories, where fighter pilots were fully credited for 'shared' victories (i.e., if pilots shot down one aircraft, all pilots were credited a victory as 'shared') in IJN Air Force, which based on the world traditional and orthodox standard the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Armée de l'Air (ALA) adopted in World War I, until World War II. His flight hours were about 500 hours in June 1943. Notes References Books - text in Japanese. - text in Japanese, few images. - text in Japanese, few images. - text in Japanese, a few images. - text in Japanese. - text in Japanese, with images. - text in Japanese, no images. - reprinted in paper backs of the first printed in June, 1976; text in Japanese, few images. - reprinted version, text in Japanese, a few images. 1919 births 2008 deaths Japanese naval aviators Japanese World War II flying aces Imperial Japanese Navy officers People from Hokkaido