Nobuo Fujita: The Japanese World War II Bombing of Oregon and His Postwar Peace Mission

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....