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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 821,694 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mitsuo Fuchida is the 359th most popular military personnel (up from 563rd in 2019), the 141st most popular biography from Japan (up from 347th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Mitsuo Fuchida ranks 359 out of 1,468Before him are Jean-Andoche Junot, Pierre Augereau, Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, Francisco de Miranda, Mamai, and Jean-Baptiste Bessières. After him are Thrasybulus, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, Otto Kretschmer, Huang Zhong, Kul Tigin, and Georg von Frundsberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Mitsuo Fuchida ranks 38Before him are Reinhard Gehlen, Alexander Luria, Theodore Schultz, Émile Benveniste, Juscelino Kubitschek, and André Michel Lwoff. After him are Felix Wankel, Fritz Strassmann, Alexandre Kojève, Günther Anders, Luis Barragán, and Princess Mafalda of Savoy. Among people deceased in 1976, Mitsuo Fuchida ranks 39Before him are Émile Benveniste, Choe Yong-gon, Juscelino Kubitschek, Dalton Trumbo, Andrei Grechko, and René Cassin. After him are Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Silvana Armenulić, Paul Lazarsfeld, Eileen Gray, and Kazi Nazrul Islam.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Mitsuo Fuchida ranks 141 out of 6,048Before him are Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906), Taira no Kiyomori (1118), Kunishige Kamamoto (1944), Emperor Go-Daigo (1288), Emperor Kōgen (-272), and Emperor Sakuramachi (1720). After him are Emperor Kaika (-208), Nobusuke Kishi (1896), Junichiro Koizumi (1942), Ko Arima (1917), Kuniaki Koiso (1880), and Eisaku Satō (1901).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Mitsuo Fuchida ranks 21Before him are Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885), Toyotomi Hideyori (1593), Iwane Matsui (1878), Sanada Yukimura (1567), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), and Yamagata Aritomo (1838). After him are Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Mitsuru Ushijima (1887), Kawakami Gensai (1834), Saburō Sakai (1916), Okita Sōji (1842), and Jisaburō Ozawa (1886).