The thrilling saga of war in the air in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II from Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki, as told by the men who created, led, and fought in the deadly Zero fighter plane. In their own words, Jiro Horikoshi (the man who designed the Zero), Masatake Okumiya (the man who led many of the Zero squadrons), and Saburo Sakai, (Japan's leading surviving figher ace) as well as many other men, tell the inside story of developing the Zero and Japan's air force.