[MacNaughton]

12 ... For Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya, it was the battle that doomed Japan.

Published in 1953, it is the story of Fuchida's Christian conversion.

Mitsuo Fuchida (3 December 1902 – 30 May 1976) was a Japanese captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service and a bomber aviator in the Japanese navy before and during World War II. He is perhaps best known for leading the first wave of air attacks on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Working under the overall fleet commander, Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo, Fuchida was responsible for the coordination of the entire aerial attack.

After the war ended, Fuchida became a Christian evangelist and traveled through the United States and Europe to tell his story. He settled permanently in the United States (although he never became a U.S. citizen).

[yarddog]

When I first saw that story I couldn’t believe it was true. Just too good to be true but in fact it was.

[DFG]

Jacob DeShazer (bombardier of Doolittle Raider #16) was captured and tortured by the Japanese after parachuting over China. He was a POW for 40 months (34 months in solitary). He was severely beaten and 3 of the crew were executed by a firing squad. Another died of slow starvation. DeShazer's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Emperor Hirohito. DeShazer persuaded one of his guards to loan him a copy of the Bible. During the 3 weeks he had possession of the Bible, he became a Christian. After the war, DeShazer studied to be a missionary and met his wife at Seattle Pacific College (Free Methodist). DeShazer and his wife returned to Japan in 1948 as a missionary and spent 30 years as a missionary in Japan. DeShazer and Fuchida met and became close friends. Fuchida became a Christian in 1950. On occasion, DeShazer and Fuchida preached together. In 1959, DeShazer moved to Nagoya to establish a Christian church in the city he had bombed. https://wonderingeagle.wordpress.com/2015/05/04/the-story-of-jacob-deshazer-and-mitsuo-fuchida-forgiveness-amidst-the-ashes-of-world-war-ii/ https://www.amazon.com/Deshazer-C-Hoyt-Watson/dp/1878559001/ref=sr_1_7?crid=21F3YTOA4IWQF&keywords=jacob+deshazer&qid=1571424756&sprefix=jacob+des%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-7

[Retain Mike]

thank you. That is the rest of the story I didn’t know.