Question: The Last Fighter Pilot documented the last combat mission in WWII, flown by which Air Force pilot?

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source: The Last Fighter Pilot
text: The Last Fighter Pilot The Last Fighter Pilot is a 2017 work of creative nonfiction written by author Don Brown, which documents the final combat mission of World War II, flown by fighter pilot Captain Jerry Yellin against Japan off Iwo Jima Island on August 14, 1945 (August 15, 1945 in Tokyo.) Captain Yellin flew the final combat mission in a North American P-51 Mustang along with another pilot, First Lieutenant Phil Schlamberg, who was piloting a second P-51 as Captain Yellin's wingman. Schalmberg was apparently shot down as he and Yellin attacked a military airfield outside Tokyo about the time that Japanese Emperor Hirohito's famous Jewel Voice Broadcast was being played over the airways, effectively announcing Japan's surrender. Phil Schlamberg became the last known combat death of World War II. His body was never recovered.

source: Jerry Yellin
text: Jerry Yellin Jerome "Jerry" Yellin (born February 15, 1924) is a former United States Army Air Forces fighter pilot, who flew the final combat mission of World War II in a North American P-51 Mustang against a military airfield near Tokyo on August 14, 1945 (August 15, 1945 local time in Tokyo). Captain Yellin's mission was executed five days after a U.S. Army Air Force Boeing B-29 Superfortress named Bockscar had dropped a second American nuclear weapon on Japan, with the second being dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.

source: Fred Hockley
text: Fred Hockley Sub-Lieutenant Frederick (Fred) Hockley RNVR (1923–1945) was an English Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm fighter pilot who was shot down over Japan while taking part in the last combat mission flown by British aircraft in the Second World War.

source: Lydia Litvyak
text: Lydia Litvyak Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak (Лидия Владимировна Литвяк, (August 18, 1921 in Moscow – August 1, 1943 in Krasnyi Luch), also known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. With twelve solo victories and four shared kills over a total of 66 combat missions, over about two years of missions, she was the first female fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy plane, the first of two female fighter pilots who have earned the title of fighter ace, and the holder of the record for the greatest number of kills by a female fighter pilot. She was shot down near Orel during the Battle of Kursk as she attacked a formation of German planes.

source: Ilmari Juutilainen
text: Ilmari Juutilainen Eino Ilmari "Illu" Juutilainen (21 February 1914 – 21 February 1999) was a fighter pilot of the Ilmavoimat (Finnish Air Force), and the top scoring non-German fighter pilot of all time. This makes him the top flying ace of the Finnish Air Force, leading all Finnish pilots in score against Soviet aircraft in World War II (1939–40 and 1941–44), with 94 confirmed aerial combat victories in 437 sorties. He himself claimed 126 victories. He achieved 34 of his victories while flying the Brewster Buffalo fighter.

source: Miroslav Štandera
text: Miroslav Štandera Miroslav Štandera (October 5, 1918 – February 19, 2014) was a Czech fighter pilot who flew combat missions for the French Air Force and the Royal Air Force during World War II. Štandera was one of the final two surviving Czech combat pilots who flew for the Allies throughout the entire period of World War II. He was also the last surviving Czech pilot who had flown for France during the war.

source: Dallas Schmidt
text: Dallas Schmidt Dallas Wilbur Schmidt, DSC with bar, (August 9, 1922 – November 22, 2007) was a provincial level politician and Royal Canadian Air Force pilot from Alberta, Canada. A decorated fighter pilot ace during WWII, he later served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1982 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus. During his time in public office he served different cabinet portfolio's under the government of Peter Lougheed.

source: Observer Badge
text: Observer Badge The Observer Badge is a military badge of the United States armed forces dating from the First World War. The badge was issued to co-pilots, navigators, and flight support personnel who had received a variation in the training required for the standard Pilot's Badge. The Observer Badge survived through the Second World War and into the 1950s, at which time the concept of an Observer Badge was phased out in favor of the modern Aircrew Badge and Navigator-Observer Badges. In addition to wings for Naval Aviators and Naval Flight Officers, the United States Navy still maintains an "Observer Badge" which is issued to flight-qualified mission specialists, such as a select number of meteorologists and intelligence officers in both the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. The U.S. Air Force awards its USAF Observer Badge, which is identical to the USAF Navigator Badge, to Air Force officers who have qualified as NASA Space Shuttle Mission Specialists, have flown an actual mission aboard the shuttle and/or the International Space Station and who are otherwise not previously aeronautically rated as an Air Force pilot or navigator.

source: Jamal A. Khan
text: Jamal A. Khan Air Chief-Marshal Jamal Ahmad Khan (Urdu: جمال احمدخان; April 15, 1934; SBt, SJ, NI(M)) was born to a Bangash Pashtoon family of Qaim-Gunj in the state of UP. He was a high-profile military figure and the four-star air officer serving as the eleventh Chief of Air Staff of Pakistan Air Force from March 6, 1985 until March 9, 1988. Commissioned in the air force in 1953, Khan graduated from the Air Force Academy and became a fighter pilot in the PAF. His air force career saw the actions in 1965 war and the 1971 war with India, eventually becoming the senior staff officer. Khan was the first PAF fighter pilot to have operate and fly the supersonic fighter, F-16 Fighting Falcon.

source: Ashley Rolfe
text: Ashley Rolfe Ashley Rolfe is one of the United States Air Force female fighter pilots who qualified to fly McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. As a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, she makes history at the 104th Fighter Wing as the first female fighter pilot in the wing’s 70-year history in Aug. 18, 2016. She served in 67th Fighter Squadron at Kadena. Kadena was Rolfe’s first duty assignment, where she also made history by serving in the 67th Fighter Squadron as the only female F-15 pilot. In 2010 she was the only female fighter pilot participating in Exercise Commando Sling that appeared in Air Force TV News "One of a Kind".

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Answer: Jerome "Jerry" Yellin