Excerpt from The Link, Vol. 25: A Protestant Magazine for Armed Forces Personnel; June 1967 During the next fifteen years I served mostly as an aircraft-carrier pilot, and logged a flying record of hours, which made me the most experienced pilot in the Japanese Navy at that time. Hence, I was chosen as the chief-commander to lead the air attack upon Pearl Harbor. The year was 1941 and the day was December 7. On that early morning I was leading the Japanese air-squadron of 360 planes which took Off from Six aircraft-carriers 200 miles to the north of Pearl Harbor, the base for the American Pacific Fleet. After seeing that the main force Of the American Pacific Fleet was at anchor in the bay, I gave my first order, All squadrons, plunge in to attack! The time was a.m. And from that moment the terrible war was Open in the Pacific. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.