is a 1957 autobiographical book on Saburo Sakai, ghostwritten by Martin Caidin based on interviews with Fred Saito.
The same source claims that Martin Caidin intentionally inflated those numbers to generate publicity for that book.
[1] In a 1998 interview with writer Naoki Kodachi, Sakai claimed to have never met Caidin prior to the book's publication, and that the 64 kills number was made up, possibly as an allusion to the battles of Miyamoto Musashi.
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