On Boxing Day in 1943 a lone Japanese pilot in a Mitsubishi A6M Zero made an emergency landing off the jungles of Papua New Guinea. The fate of pilot Tomiharu Honda has never been determined. He may have lived to old age as an adopted villager, or wasted away in wretched solitude and starvation in the mountains, or he may have met his end as a ceremonial feast for a head hunting tribe.