Capt. Mitsuo Fuchida (Architect of Pearl Harbor attack) • Interview • 1965 [RITY Archive]

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[@salyoutubepremium7734]

The politeness of the audience is noteworthy. I’m not sure you’d find today’s audience to be so classy and respectful.

[@scrat4379]

Considering he led the aerial attack which enraged the American population and memories of it were still fresh in the American conscience in 1966, yes, very restrained.

[@mikelereaux6457]

Great interview for me one of most important ever .

[@wileydave17]

"He does not speak English"....goes on the speak English the entire interview.

[@roubini74]

some of my ancestor was killed by Japanese during occupation in Singapore. As i grow older i started to read and also work in Japanese companies whose my boss uncle was a survival of battleship Yamato. His uncle told him, he was force to join military without a choice. He dreaded the war. Many japanese are brainwash, since young. They think like what military regime wanted. honor to die for emperor and sarcifice for country is an honor. Mr Fuchida can choose not to go onto a show. But kudos to him for having the courage. And Kudos to Americans old breed audience who listens to once an enemy soldiers. I hope Americans today could more like the old breed and care to listens more. Thank you for the wonderful video. I love and appreciate it very much.

[@taylorreilly8428]

I love that the audience gave him respect and let him speak even calpping. 20 years is not that long in the grand scheme of things and this would've still been fresh on everyone's mind especially the veterans.

[@johnzook8386]

If interested, read Wounded Tiger. Excellent account of Fuchida-san duty to Japan. It's a very long book but weaves the story of several people on both sides and how their lives intersected during and after the war. Great story.

[@Theearthtraveler]

Fuchida was a brilliant man was an amazing story!

[@nunya4244]

"And while I was reading the Bible, I met the Christ. This is my testimony". Watch his face, his eyes, light up when he says this at 7:37.

[@transtremm]

2:01 Between November 1944 and April 1945, Japan launched more than nine thousand balloon bombs, some bombs made it to the USA killing US civilians.

[@Caperhere]

One family, I think. 5 people.

[@bloodybones63]

@@Caperhere On a picnic, I think.

[@bobharrison7693]

Fuchida was the leader of the attack, not the architect of it.

[@beadingbusily]

Many who experience war are changed. They've seen too much. This happens.

[@jamesberlo4298]

Poort Bastards captured from the Doolittle Raid spent the entire War as Prisoners and all Survived except one Man.

[@bloodybones63]

Three of the 80 Doolittle raiders were killed in crash landings or while parachuting. Eight others were captured by the Japanese. Three of them were executed, another died of disease and starvation in captivity, and four survived more than three years of solitary confinement and brutality.

[@manilajohn0182]

Fuchida was not the architect of the attack. He led the attack. The architects of the attack were Minoru Genda and Kameto Kuroshima. Just sayin...

[@roubini74]

Btw, Fuchida san said Dolittle was capture and POW in Japan. This isnt what we Mainstream history said. It was said, dolittle was not capture and went back to USA. hmmm....

[@DavidAnderson-u2z]

Wow.

[@orbison]

Here's a eerie fact. Fuchida was supposed to be in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. At the last minute, he was called back to Tokyo on orders by his superiors. That was one day before the bomb was dropped. He was later sent with a surveying team to inspect the ruins and report on the survivors. Of the entire crew, Fuchida was the only person to not get sick and die from radiation.

[@ReelinInTheYears66]

@@orbison That’s fascinating. Thank you for the additional background on his story.

[@transtremm]

I’m sure he would have answered all these questions differently during the war.

[@Caperhere]

He said that he was bitter, until he read the Bible.

[@salyoutubepremium7734]

He was a very different man at that time

[@coelhinhodapascoa5712]

The pathetic Pearl Harbour attack was the answer to Churchill's and Roosevelt's prayers

[@salyoutubepremium7734]

Please provide proof.

[@FoxyGal18]

What are you saying!? Why the Hell would Churchill and FDR pray for that!? 😡🤬

[@coelhinhodapascoa5712]

@@FoxyGal18 Churchill because he needed badly that the US openly entered the war by England's side. Roosevelt, because he needed a casus belli to justify that the US, whose people, contrary to his beliefs, was mainly isolationist at the time, would join a war that was not "theirs" until Pearl Harbour.

[@lucasgrey9794]

@@FoxyGal18 Britain got there asses kicked by Germany so they came crying, screaming, pooping and farting to us to come save them.

[@scrat4379]

​@FoxyGal18 they wanted US entry into WWII, Roosevelt would have been impeached if he was actively aiding through allies against the Nazis and Japanese prior to Dec 7.