That's of interest of me, I think I'll see if I can pick up a copy of that soon.
On a slightly related note, I have always been fascinated by Japanese culture and how it is so frequently misinterpreted by Westerners.
The book gives a rare insight to what went wrong, the book "Fire in the Skies" gives a pretty good account far as the Air War is concerned. Americans for example had ingenuity, a prime example was the battleship bombardment of Henderson Airfield on Guadalcanal.
Most aircrafts were destroyed on the ground or damaged, a lone officer went around putting together a crew to repair the aircraft (VT-8) - they ripped apart a dozen aircraft to patch together a TBF Avenger.
When I say patched together, literally nobody wanted to fly the aircraft because it was such a hack job, instead the officer hopped in and they loaded bombs on it, he took off and bombed some japanese artillery positions.
Where this differences in the Japanese culture, for example Wewak was a japanese fighter base, most of the fighters were suffering down time due to lack of spare parts, the aircraft belonged to the royal family, to "butcher" one aircraft to repair another was just an insult.
In reality, they could of butchered one aircraft and repaired 2-3 to flight status, however the discipline would not allow it. The americans on the other hand used ingenuity to hack together 4-5 to piece together one regardless of the costs.
I'd source this information but i'm a bit to tired, it showed up in a magazine a while back thats all I can remember.
