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Mar 16, 2020 · Photo by a Japanese pilot coming in behind a fellow bomber during the Pearl Harbor attack. Prints and Photographs Division. Just before 8 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, Mitsuo Fuchida, leader of the Japanese strike force in the attack on Pearl Harbor, radioed his force: “To-ra! To-ra! To-ra!” It was the signal that they had achieved complete surprise.
Author. Mitsuo Fuchida (淵田 美津雄, Fuchida Mitsuo, 3 December 1902 – 30 May 1976) was a Japanese captain [1] 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.
Mitsuo Fuchida served 25 years in the Imperial Japanese Navy and was a captain at the end of World War II. An aviator with 3000 hours of flight time, he served as commander of the air groups of Cardiv 1 from Augu.st, 1941, to July, 1942, in Akagi.
The attack on Pearl Harbor[nb 3] was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941. At the time, the United States was a neutral country in World War II.
Aug 5, 2020 · On 7 December 1941, Japanese inflight commander Mitsuo Fuchida signalled To-Ra, To-Ra, To-Ra indicating that the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was a total surprise (Fig. 1).
- Ryan Moore
- 2020
Mitsuo Fuchida s Map of the 7 December 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor RYAN MOORE KEYWORDS: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Second World War, Mitsuo Fuchida. On 7 December 1941, Japanese in ight commander Mitsuo Fuchida signalled To-Ra, To-Ra, To-Ra indi-cating that the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was atotalsurprise( Fig.1 ).Bravingahailofanti-aircraft
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By Richard G. Higgins. Commander Mitsuo Fuchida, strike leader for Operation Hawaii and 20-year veteran of the Imperial Japanese Navy (Kaigun), strapped himself into the observer’s seat as his Nakajima B5N2 “Kate” torpedo bomber, piloted by Lieutenant Mitsuo Matsuzaki, and lifted off from the carrier Akagi on the black morning of December 7, 1941.
