Complex sentence: A little over a month after the war ended, Lt Col Johnson was piloting a B-25 Mitchell, which had been pressed into service as a transport aircraft, Johnson flew into a typhoon and was hopelessly lost in the black skies.
Split into simpler sentences: A little over a month after the war ended, Lt. Col. Johnson was piloting a B-25 Mitchell, which had been pressed into service as a transport aircraft. He flew into a typhoon and was hopelessly lost in the black skies.