We know about the Japanese pilots who, in World War II, were sent off to make deliberate suicidal crashes into enemy targets, but did any of the pilots instead, once airborne, simply fly their aircraft out of Japan and to relative safety/P.O.W status/surrender etc? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

We know about the Japanese pilots who, in World War II, were sent off to make deliberate suicidal crashes into enemy targets, but did any of the pilots instead, once airborne, simply fly their aircraft out of Japan and to relative safety/P.O.W status/surrender etc?

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/u/parksungjun has previously answered a question about Japanese kamikaze pilots who changed their minds.

/u/hellcatfighter has previously answered Did any kamikaze pilots return to base without crashing their planes into American forces?