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The Last Kill! On this day, 77 years ago, Navy Lt. Cmdr. T.H. Reidy, commander of VBF 83, flying a Vought F4U Corsair, recorded the last confirmed US air-to-air kill of WWII (August 15, 1945). Reidy shot down a Nakajima C6N Saiun reconnaissance aircraft at 5:40 a.m. local time over Tokyo, just five minutes before the war officially ended.