Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- DEDICATION -- CHARTS AND BATTLE-MAPS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 - The Sino-Japanese Incident -- 2 - Peace Attempts Fail- The Fighting Continues -- 3 - Zero Fighters in China -- 4 - Eve of the Pacific War -- 5 - Opening of Hostilities Followed By Anxiety -- 6 - Prewar Anticipation -- 7 - The Pearl Harbor Attack: Overwhelming Victory as the War Begins -- 8 - Zero Fighters Assure Victories: Operations in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies -- 9 - The Sea Battle Off the Coast of Malaya -- 10 - The Wake Island Operation -- 11 - The Indian Ocean Operation -- 12 - The Coral Sea Battle -- 13 - The Midway and Aleutians Operations: The Turning Point of the War -- 14 - Reorganization of the Combined Fleet -- 15 - Change in Warship-Building Policy -- 16 - Desperate Air Operations Over Long-Range Conditions: The Saga of Saburo Sakai -- 17 - Succession of Air Battles After Guadalcanal -- 18 - The Guadalcanal Campaign: Evaluation of American Warplanes -- 19 - "Operation A"-I-Go Sakusen -- 20 - Admiral Yamamoto Dies in Action -- 21 - Battle of Santa Cruz -- The 1st Carrier Division Attacks -- The Second Carrier Division Pursues the Enemy -- Last Moments of the Hornet -- 22 - Our Situation Becomes Critical: Air Battles in the Solomons and Rabaul Areas -- The Last Rabaul Air Force -- 23 - The End is in Sight: Defense of the Mariana Islands -- 24 - The Kamikaze Suicide Attacks -- 25 - Air Raids and Earthquakes -- Technical and
Administrative Factors Which Hampered Production -- 26 - Defense of the Mainland: The B-29 Appears -- 27 - Carrier Planes Raid the Homeland -- 28 - The Atomic Bombings: Personal Observations of Masatake Okumiya -- 29 - Jiro Horikoshi's Final War Diary -- CHARTS.