April 18, 1942 - 70 years ago today, 16 planes took off on a
mission over Japan - the Doolittle Raid. No one knew what would really happen. Jake DeShazer was one of those participating in the raid and his life ultimately had a huge impact on the Japanese pilot who led the attack on Pearl Harbor - Mitsuo Fuchida.
Jake went back to Japan with his wife and young child and at the bottom you'll see a photo of him with his former guard.
If the stories of Jake DeShazer, Mitsuo Fuchida, and the
Covell families were fiction, it wouldn't be so great because it would be
too far-fetched to believe. But it's a true story, and an amazing one that needs to be
told. This is much of what Wounded Tiger is about. The book will be available later this year.
2 comments:
Well said, Martin!
Congratulations on the book finally beinc accepted for publication, too.
I'm looking forward to your book. When I was a teenager in Spokane, Washington I was invited by my neighbor to a Youth for Christ meeting at First Baptist Church. Little did I know that the speaker for the evening was none other than Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor. I don't remember anything about what he spoke about, but it is a memory that will never fade. The Fuchida-DeShazer-Covell story is a remarkable story of God's forgiveness and its resulting fruit.
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