A rare book for. readers interested in the history of the 2nd World War.
Winged Samurai: Saburo Sakai and the Zero Fighter Pilots
By Henry Sakaida
Softcover, 159 pages, heavily illustrated
Published by Champlin Fighter Museum, August 1985
Language: English
ISBN-10: 091217305X
ISBN-13: 978-0912173054
Dimensions: 8.2 x 0.5 x 11.0 inches
First-hand accounts of Japanese airmen from the Pacific War are rare in the West; biographies are almost unique. In Winged Samurai author Henry Sakaida presents the results of several interviews with Saburo Sakai, who is recognized as Japan’s fourth-highest scoring ace.
There has been a biography of Sakai’s exploits published in English, Samurai! By Martin Caiden, an adaptation of Sakai’s own Ôzora no samurai (Samurai in the Sky). It appears Caiden took several liberties with the narrative in order to dramatize the account for Western readers. These are not limited to the construction of details and conversations, Sakai himself indicates many incidents related in Caiden’s book never actually happened.
Henry Sakaida corrects Sakai’s…
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