1976
Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain (born 1902)
Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain (born 1902)
Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese captain (born 1902)
Mitsuo Fuchida
Japanese Naval officer
- Died
- 1976
Mitsuo Fuchida was a Japanese captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service and a bomber observer in the Imperial Japanese Navy before and during World War II. He is perhaps best known for leading the first wave of air attacks on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. Working under the fleet commander, Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo, Fuchida was responsible for the coordination of the aerial attack.