MILITARY PERSONNEL

Mitsuo Fuchida

1902 - 1976

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Mitsuo Fuchida (淵田 美津雄, Fuchida Mitsuo, 3 December 1902 – 30 May 1976) 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 overall fleet commander, Vice Admiral Chūichi Nagumo, Fuchida was responsible for the coordination of the entire aerial attack. After the war ended, Fuchida became a Christian convert and evangelist, traveling across the United States and Europe to tell his story. He later settled in the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mitsuo Fuchida has received more than 872,648 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Mitsuo Fuchida is the 545th most popular military personnel (down from 359th in 2019), the 318th most popular biography from Japan (down from 141st in 2019) and the 29th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mitsuo Fuchida ranks 545 out of 2,058. Before him are John Hawkins, Friedrich Dollmann, Jawhar, Heinz Lammerding, Ivan Yakubovsky, and Hasdrubal Gisco. After him are Paul Revere, Alexander von Kluck, Vladimir Gelfand, Fritz Bayerlein, Peroz III, and Karl Silberbauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Mitsuo Fuchida ranks 55. Before him are George Ostrogorsky, Pascual Jordan, Oskar Morgenstern, Wilhelm Stuckart, Mohammad Hatta, and Carlo Gambino. After him are Josep Samitier, Léon M'ba, Gianpiero Combi, Carlo Levi, David O. Selznick, and Sylvanus Olympio. Among people deceased in 1976, Mitsuo Fuchida ranks 56. Before him are Phil Ochs, Carlo Gambino, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Carol Reed, Ivan Yakubovsky, and Silvana Armenulić. After him are Michael Polanyi, Lin Yutang, Lee J. Cobb, Mikhail Gurevich, Arnold Gehlen, and Walter Warlimont.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Mitsuo Fuchida ranks 318 out of 6,245. Before him are Waichiro Omura (1933), Go Nagai (1945), Jiroemon Kimura (1897), Emperor Seiwa (850), Masayoshi Son (1957), and Otoya Yamaguchi (1943). After him are Tokugawa Iemochi (1846), Kondō Isami (1834), Tsuguharu Foujita (1886), Nobuyuki Abe (1875), Kikunae Ikeda (1864), and Saitō Makoto (1858).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Mitsuo Fuchida ranks 29. Before him are Nogi Maresuke (1849), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Tamon Yamaguchi (1892), Hijikata Toshizō (1835), and Saitō Hajime (1844). After him are Kawakami Gensai (1834), Seishirō Itagaki (1885), Jisaburō Ozawa (1886), Saburō Sakai (1916), Kenji Doihara (1883), and Taira no Masakado (903).

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