[Dread Knot]

Originally Posted by TorpX

I always skeptical about these advanced, super-weapons.

I've become skeptical of postwar autobiographies myself. Be it Churchill or some lowly lieutenant. A good example being that of Mitsuo Fuchida, who led the air attack on Pearl harbor. As more Japanese source works were translated to English, the veracity of Fuchida's statement, quoted in At Dawn We Slept, of having demanded a third-wave Attack on Pearl Harbor's fuel tanks, and his later account of the timing of the American counter-attack in the Battle of Midway have been hotly disputed by historians Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully in their book, Shattered Sword. His claim of being at the surrender ceremony on the deck of the Missouri has been determined to be completely false.

The famed Zero pilot Saburo Sakai's biography Samurai also contains a lot of myths and errors mixed in with good information.