Title: 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
Places: Japan
People: Saburō Sakai (1916-2000)