Japanese Forces

Mitsuo Fuchida

On 7 Dec 1941, in command of all attacking aircraft over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States, Mitsuo Fuchida flew a Type 97 Model 3 torpedo bomber with the first attack wave as an air observer. In 1952, he toured the United States as a member of the Worldwide Christian Missionary Army of Sky Pilots, which would be the first of his many tours around the world as a missionary; he declared himself to be an "ambassador of peace". In 1955, he published the book From Pearl Harbor to Golgotha, also known as From Pearl Harbor to Calvary, which focused more so on his faith than military matters, but it was meant to be the subsequent volume to Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan. He became an American citizen in 1960.