This book details the Japanese Army Air Force (JAAF) aerial combat during the Nomonhan Incident. Horonbail is also known as Holombile and is a name for the plains in the Nomonhan area. The cover depicts 24th Sentai Ki-27 Nate (Type 96) parked at a forward airfield in Manchuria (Manchukuo).

The author, Tokurou Irie was a news correspondent. During the war for Asahi. During the 1970's he was the anchorman for TBS Evening News in Tokyo.

Table of contents:

1. The base of the grassy plain
　2. Decisive battle music
　3. The war buddy love of the wing
　4. The life; a second lieutenant
　5. A secret story of ? [name unknown]
　6. Captain evening primrose
　7. The shooting down of the occasion
　8. A fighter night tale
　9. The victim's blood of the aerial dogfight
　10. I bury an enemy corpse in the flower
　11. The wife of the fighter
　12. A wing of the fire
　13. The note of the pro-eagle

Thanks to Henry Sakaida, Minoru Kamada and Yoji Sakaida for additional information  

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September 21, 2023