This was for real. And they had been caught unprepared. The other man is Mitsuo Fuchida. He is the pilot who led the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Yet, of the 70 officers who took off from the Akagi aircraft carrier for Pearl Harbor, only he survived the war.
War makes men enemies.
It lives by an unforgiving code of survival. But wars end. Life goes on. For my Dad, it meant coming home, marrying and starting a family. Though nightmares startled him awake for a while, he gradually adjusted to civilian life.