Jacob DeShazer was a bombardier in the Doolittle Raid of April 1942, the first American bombing of Japan after Pearl Harbor. His plane went down in enemy territory, and he spent 40 months as a prisoner, beaten, starved, and held in solitary confinement for 34 months. In the middle of that ordeal the prisoners were given a Bible to share. DeShazer came to faith, and he said God gave him new eyes, so that his bitter hatred for his guards turned into loving pity. After the war he earned a Bible degree, and in December 1948 he went back to Japan, this time as a missionary. A tract he wrote helped lead Mitsuo Fuchida, the man who led the attack on Pearl Harbor, to Christ.
