
Caption | Portrait of Saburo Sakai cropped from a Japanese Navy Tainan Air Group group portrait, Lae, New Guinea, Jun 1942; note autograph ww2dbase | ||||
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Added By | C. Peter Chen | ||||
Added Date | 20 Dec 2014 |
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13 May 2015 07:06:57 PM
SAMURAI:
Saburo Sakai Imperial Japanese Naval Aviator Born August 25,1916 - Died September 22, 2000
Sakai was among 1,500 men that applied for naval flight training, 70 were selected, Sakai was one of them.
During the early months of the Pacific War, an unarmed transport was spotted, the pilot flew along side the transport seeing waving women and children.
Sliding his canopy back the pilot waved back, wobbled his wings and flew away. The pilot was none other than Saburo Sakai.
Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice
Japanese Maxim
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SAMURAI
Saburo Sakai
Published by Pocket Books 1996
ISBN -10 0671563106
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