Samurai!

Description:

Saburo Sakai was Japan's greatest fighter pilot to survive World War II. A veteran of more than two hundred dogfights, Sakai reportedly shot down sixty-four Allied planes, but he is best known for flying his crippled Zero nearly 600 miles to safety while partially paralyzed and nearly blind from multiple wounds.

subjects: Kamikaze pilots,  Fighter pilots,  Japanese Aerial operations,  Personal narratives,  World War, 1939-1945,  Fiction, general

People: Saburō Sakai (1916-2000)

Places: Japan