Mitsuo Fuchida & Masatake Okumiya

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Fuchida led the air attack on Pearl Harbor; Okumiya was a naval aviator and staff officer. Their account of Midway shaped the Western view for fifty years before later research found it unreliable in places.

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Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan 1955 · 266 pages

The Japanese account of Midway, co-written by the airman who led the Pearl Harbor strike and stood on Akagi's deck as the bombs fell.

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