Jacob DeShazer: Forgive Your Enemies by Janet Benge & Geoff Benge YWAM Publishing ISBN 1576584755 223 pp; Paperback, 2009 In April, 1942, four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese military was on a roll, expanding their empire through Asia and putting doubt and fear in the minds of America and its allies. America needed a victory, or at least a morale boost, but its ships could not get close enough to Japan to run a successful bombing mission and have the planes return to the ships. The Japanese mainland remained untouched. President Franklin Roosevelt asked for something that would provide a boost to American morale just two weeks after Pearl Harbor. It was at this point that Jimmy Doolittle, recently promoted to lieutenant colonel, was put in charge of a plan to bomb Japan. Planes would fly off of American ships, drop their bombs over Japan and fly on to land in China. It became known as the Doolittle Raid. One of the 80 men to participate in the raid was bombardier Jacob DeShazer, who became one of the most famous of Doolittle’s Raiders. His fame came from his incredible story of what he endured during the war, and more […]
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