NOBUO FUJITA
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NOBUO FUJITA
Nobuo Fujita was the Japanese pilot who conducted not only a bombing raid against Brookings, Oregon, in World War II but also a peace mission there many years after the war. Woven throughout this history of Imperial Japan and World War II in the Pacific are the events in Fujita’s life that led to his bombing mission.
During World War II in 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy ordered Fujita, an experienced and dependable pilot, to firebomb a forest in southern Oregon to cause tremendous damage. In one of the very little-known incidents of the war, Fujita became the only enemy combatant in history to bomb the United States mainland.
Long after the war, in the spirit of forgiveness and reconciliation, the Brookings, Oregon, Junior Chamber of Commerce decided to invite none other than Nobuo Fujita to serve as the guest of honor at the 1962 Azalea Festival. Thunderstruck by this invitation, Fujita had no idea if it was genuine or possibly a trap to arrest him for war crimes.
Having escaped danger unscathed on numerous occasions, an older Fujita prepared to embark on a much different mission. This trip to Brookings would be the exact opposite of his bombing mission in 1942. Fujita prepared to apologize to the people of the town for the bombing. He would bring his centuries-old samurai sword with him as a gift to show that he was truly sorry. Before he departed from home, Japanese officials warned that there would be nothing they could do to help him if the locals in Oregon were hostile. Nobuo Fujita’s life is a moving story about war and reconciliation.
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Japanese Pilot Fujita
Nobuo Fujita was a rising star in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. His pilot skills and ideas impressed the naval high command, and they gave him a historic task--become the first person to bomb the United States mainland. The target was southern Oregon, one of the least defended parts of the United States West Coast, where the Japanese hoped to hit the Americans by surprise. This raid was intended to be retaliation for Doolittle's American raid on Tokyo in 1942.
Before bombing Oregon, Fujita was with the Japanese fleet during the Pearl Harbor operation and later witnessed Doolittle's raid on Tokyo. At the end of the war, he trained kamikaze pilots.
My book delves into the military career of Nobuo Fujita, with great detail of the bombing of Oregon, and Imperial Japan during World War II on both the war front and home front. It also describes the very unlikely story of how Japan and Brookings, Oregon, became forever linked to one another.
Fujita survived the war and was shockingly invited to Brookings, Oregon, in 1962, near the scene of his wartime bombing. This was intended to be a historic postwar meeting of reconciliation between the United States and Japan. However, many Americans in southern Oregon had not forgiven him and were strongly opposed to his visit. Some threatened violence against him and the Brookings Junior Chamber of Commerce for inviting Fujita. The Japanese government cautioned Fujita about the risk of traveling there. It would be his call what he would do.
In the postwar period, Nobuo Fujita was genuinely in favor of peace and reconciliation with the United States and particularly with the people of Brookings, Oregon. He thought he might be assaulted, arrested for war crimes, or face something even worse. Nevertheless, Fujita had not been afraid to die during the war, and he was not afraid now. He decided to go to Oregon to make peace and was even willing to die trying. As had been the case with him his whole life, failure was not an option.
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