"When the Chinese found Lt. Pilchard and Crew they wrote scrolls honoring the men at their burial. Each year at the same time as our first raid on the Japanese mainland they will display these scrolls. Duplicate scrolls have been forwarded to their next of kin. An English translation of each one of the scrolls, as rendered by Capt. M.F. Yeh of the Chinese Consulate General in Calcutta, is below:
(1) When heroes die on the road to victory, the first sign of ultimate success is thus achieved
(2) Shadows of planes filled the sky; souls of Crews ascend to the heaven
(3) For world peace our friends, helping China, sacrifice their lives; all people pay tribute to the dead
(4) Heaven takes into her fold the world's outstanding heroes
(5) For the peace of the world they fought against aggressors; for the welfare of people they sacrificed their lives
(6) Nobody is immortal, all heroes have to die one day; if there is such a thing as reincarnation, they will rise again as heroes in the next world
(7) The whole world regrets the death of well known heroes
(8) Sacrificing for achievement encourages and opens the way for bombing Japan, in order to avenge the dead
(9) When deaths occur among the fighting men of the Allies, it is greatly regrettable; when time comes to celebrate the victory for the peace, the souls of the dead shall be comforted
(10) Flying across the sky above the Pacific to destroy Japan makes the Axis aggressors frightened."