Mitsuo Fuchida is one of the most notorious villains in American history. The Japanese pilot, handpicked by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, led the surprise attack on United States forces at Pearl Harbor on ...
A chance encounter with the writings of a former sworn enemy transformed the Japanese “hero” of the attack on Pearl Harbor into a Christian missionary of peace in the United States. Few people may now ...
I first met Stu Hedley (“Grenades, rockets, bombs, machine gun fire in San Diegans’ ears,” Cover Story, August 29). some time in the early 2000s on/around Pearl Harbor Day when my wife and I visited ...
In Wounded Tiger, author T. Martin Bennett casts real-life figures from the World War II era in a multilayered nonfiction novel. Readers will be struck by the novel’s historical accuracy and ...
Navy Captain Mitsuo Fuchida was one of Japan’s most famous flying officers of World War II. He led the first wave of bombers in the raid on Pearl Harbor, then circled high over Oahu for nearly three ...
MIDWAY, THE BATTLE THAT DOOMED JAPAN (266 pp.)—Mitsuo Fuchida & Masatake Okumiya—U.S. Naval Institute ($4.50). In the months after Pearl Harbor, the restless aggressors who bossed the Imperial ...
When the nation marks the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Rev. Grover DeVault will remember not only the Americans who died Dec. 7, 1941, but also the Japanese aviator who led the ...
How God caught up with the man who led Japan’s surprise attack. America’s latest blockbuster, Pearl Harbor, has already been blamed for dwelling on a shallow love triangle, ignoring the sacrifices of ...
Key point: The most prudent course for Imperial Japan would have been to avoid war with the United States entirely. At 7:45 AM on the morning of December 7, 1941 Commander Mitsuo Fuchida gazed ...
Millions of lives around the world were changed lastingly by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 70 years ago. But few were as radically transformed as that of Mitsuo Fuchida, the Japanese flying ace ...
A proposal that would require ordained clergy to be monogamous is on the docket at the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s general assembly this summer.... All dioceses in the Episcopal Church regularly rely ...
Mitsuo Fuchida, left, and Jacob DeShazer are seen talking to each other in the 1950s. (Photo courtesy of Carol Dixon) BERKELEY, Calif. -- With Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Pearl Harbor with ...