As I descended for my first approach, I noticed that the deck was not only tiny, it was moving up, down and sideways! Okay, calm down, breathe deeply and don’t do anything dumb, I thought. Training was soon arranged and, a few days later, there I was, looking down at the deck of a carrier and thinking: We’re going to land on that? It looked way too small. This was partly because much as I wanted to go to the Soryu, I still hadn’t yet landed on the deck of a carrier! I was filled with a sense of anticipation and foreboding. This was highly unusual because it was navy policy to always send transfer orders to petty officers by written letter. One day, shortly after I was transferred to the Omura Squadron, I was shocked to receive a telegram ordering me to report immediately to the carrier Soryu. The View From the Other Side of the Mirror: A Japanese Pilot’s Account of Pearl Harbor Here, for the first time in English, from Mori Juzo’s The Miraculous Torpedo Squadron, are two chapters dealing with his preparations for and participation in the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, with kind permission from Kojin Publishing. 2012, Into the Rising Sun, Letters of the Kamikaze Pilots), and in Manoa, published by the University of Hawaii ( Last Letters of the Kamikaze Pilots), and elsewhere. Some of his works have appeared in Harper’s (Jan. His passion is to translate aviation-related articles, documents and books from Japanese into English. In addition to flying for the small Hawaiian airline, Voge spent many years working as a translator for companies in Japan. But one of Vintage Wings readers, Nicholas (Nick) Voge, an American pilot with Oahu’s Makani Kai Air, is also a long-time translator and has been working on an English translation of Mori’s work. This book has, until now, never been translated into English. In 1973, Juzo wrote his autobiography, entitled Kiseki no Raigekitai ( The Miraculous Torpedo Squadron). Mori Juzo was a torpedo bomber pilot of the Imperial Japanese Navy and one of the aviators who participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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