Japanese Imperial Army Reconnaissance Pilot

My job was to go out and find them,

The American carrier strike groups

Which circled like sharks and raptors

Around my battered mother-land

And they attacked and bombed

Almost unopposed, and at will,

The targets of their choice...

So I was pulled out of school

And taught how to fly,

At an airfield in China,

First at day, then at night...

And was then given a plane,

Twin-engined and sleek

Designed like a German

To fly patrols like an avenging eagle...

But it all ended,

Soon after -- too soon,

Before I could locate someone

To be killed.