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Great uncle of American actress Scarlett Johansson.1st Lt Philip Schlamberg, US Army Air Force, was a P-51 Mustang pilot with the 15th Fighter Group at Iwo Jima in World War II and was shot down over Japan on August 14, 1945, the day the Japanese surrendered.He disappeared on August 14, 1945. By an odd twist of fate and history, he is known as the one of .. if not the last man .. to have died during WWII.With him on that day was US Army Air Corps Capt. Jerry Yellin .. together they flew the final combat mission in World War II, in their P-51 Mustangs.According to Jerry Yellin .. his wingman, 19-year-old 2nd Lt. Philip Schlamberg, leaned over to him and said, “Captain, if we go, I’m not coming back.” Yellin responded, “What are you talking about?” Schlamberg said, “It’s just a feeling I have.”Yellin told Schlamberg, “Just stay close on my wing, tuck it in tight, you’ll be OK.” After completing their strafing mission, “Schlamberg was close in on my wing,” Yellin recalled. “I gave him the thumbs-up, he gave me a thumbs-up. I led my flight of four airplanes into some clouds.As Jerry Yellin tells it .. "when I came out of the clouds, Schlamberg was gone. Nobody heard anything, nobody saw anything. When we landed on Iwo Jima, we found out that while we were strafing, the war had been over for three hours."Although there would be additional casualties in the coming days, and the war would not officially end until the September 2 Japanese surrender ceremony .. Schlamberg was among the very last to die in World War II. HIs squadron landed back in Iwo Jima 2 hours after the war ended.This story continues. In 1988, Jerry Yellin's youngest son married the daughter of a Japanese Kamikaze pilot.So .. the man .. who flew with the man .. who was possibly the last man to die during World War II .. is the father in law of a woman who is the daughter of a Kamikaze pilot .. and is the grandfather to three Japanese-American grandchildren.And .. his wingman on that final flight .. perhaps the last man known to have died in arial combat during WWII .. Philip Schlamberg .. is the Great Uncle of actress Scarlett Johansson.The brain of the administrator of this site .. has just exploded.