The Last Zero Fighter: Firsthand Accounts from WWII Japanese Naval Pilots: 1

Firsthand accounts from interviews conducted in Japan with five WWII Japanese Naval aviators. All are veterans of the many pivotal battles of the Pacific War including; USS Panay, Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, Rabaul, Darwin, Midway, Guadalcanal, Papua New Guinea, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, the Kamikaze in the Philippines and others. The book is 292 pages plus 78 photos (many from the veterans' own albums) 9 original maps and illustrations. Includes an introduction to the Japanese pilot training system for both officers and enlisted men. Each pilot is followed from the time he joined the navy until war's end. They explain; why they joined the navy, what they thought about the war, about the aircraft they flew, how they felt about their friends and their former adversaries. The interviews were conducted firsthand in their own language by an American Pacific War historian who spent 10 years living in Japan.