They would stay in their planes and burn to death until they crashed. Some would jump or if they had considered that possiblity, they usually brought a pistol which they would use to shoot themselves in the head.
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The US built no planes in World War 1. American pilots flew French planes; Nieuports and Spads.
It's an experimental plane called RC Dornier Do-335. Never went to production, it was extremely noise, and their pilots felt sick during tests.
The plane was called a B-17 Flying fortress.
Though the exact number will never be certain due to the difficulty in distinguishing a true suicide-attack from a pilot who chooses to steer his plane into an enemy target only once he has been disable, historians claim that approximately 4000 pilots sacrificed themselves in Kamikaze attacks against the Allies.
First of all there was no branch called the Air Force during World War 2 in any of the Allied Forces. They were either Army Air Force, Marine Air Force and Navy Air Forces and the Brits added the word Royal to their forces. If you added up all the "air forces" of Russia, The US, The UK and other nations you would have a total that could surpass several hundred thousand. The Germans and Italians had aviators too. If you add them then you definitely surpass many hundreds of thousand of pilots flying during World War 2.