blood red skies japanese ace pilot kaneyoshi mutoKaneyoshi Muto scored his first aerial victory in China in December 1937 and became an Ace by the end of the following year. At the opening of the Second World War Muto fought across the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, the Java Sea and New Guinea. He flew alongside Saburo Sakai at Iwo Jima, who called him the toughest fighter pilot in the Imperial Navy. In December 1944 Muto was sent to the Japanese Home islands to defend them against B29