Masatake Okumiya, who began his career as a staff officer under Admiral Yamamoto, and Jiro Horikoshi, a leading Japanese aircraft designer, paint a fascinating picture of the actions of the Japanese air force during World War II in the Pacific. The narrative contains memoirs and numerous testimonies of famous eyewitnesses about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, memoirs of air ace Saburo Sakai, Vice Admiral Ugaki and the diaries of Jiro Horikoshi about the last days of the war.