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Zero
Zero
Author: Masatake Okumiya, Jiro Horikoshi, Martin Caidin
This is the thrilling saga of war in the air in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II told from the Japanese point of view. It is the story of the men who created, led, and fought in the deadly Zero fighter plane. In their own words, Jiro Horikoshi (who designed the Zero), Masatake Okumiya (leader of many Zero squadrons), and ...  more » They tell what it felt like to bomb American ships and to shoot down American airplanes -- and then of their shock when the myth of invincibility was shattered by the new Lightning, Hellcat, and Corsair fighters. They tell of the fight against the growing strength of a remorseless American enemy; and how, in desperation the Japanese High Command ordered the creation of deadly suicide squadrons, the Kamikaze. And finally they reveal their reaction to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
ISBN-13: 9780743444910
ISBN-10: 0743444914
Publication Date: 8/27/2002
Pages: 464
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Publisher: I Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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