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Jacob Daniel DeShazer (15 November 1912 – 15 March 2008) participated in the Doolittle Raid as a staff sergeant and later became a Christian missionary in Japan. Early years. DeShazer was born on 15 November 1912 in West Stayton, Oregon and graduated from Madras Middle School in Madras, Oregon in 1931.
On June 8, 1944, in the solitude of his cell, Jacob DeShazer called upon the Lord for salvation. In the coming weeks, the repentant American marveled to see the Holy Spirit remove the hatred in his heart for his enemy guards and replace it with love.
Mar 23, 2008 · March 23, 2008. Jacob DeShazer, a bombardier in the storied Doolittle raid over Japan in World War II who endured 40 months of brutality as a prisoner of the Japanese, then became a...
Aug 19, 2023 · DeShazer, the Doolittle Raider who bombed Nagoya, met Captain Mitsuo Fuchida, who led the attack on Pearl Harbor, becoming close friends. ( For That One Day: The Memoirs of Mitsuo Fuchida, Commander of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, translated by Douglas T. Shinsato and Tadanori Urabe.)
Jacob DeShazer tells how as a Japanese prisoner of war he discovered Christ and eventually returned to Japan as a missionary. "Return of the Raider presents one survivor’s view of the Doolittle Raid against Japan in the early days of World War II after Pearl Harbor.
Jacob DeShazer, a farm boy from Oregon, joined the army Air Corps at age 27. He had always wanted to be a pilot, but when he did not qualify, an opportunity opened to become a bombardier. By luck of the draw, Jacob found himself as one of the 80 men participating in the famous Doolittle Raid over Japan shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Mar 23, 2008 · The Rev. Jacob Daniel "Jake" DeShazer, who was the oldest survivor of World War II's historic Doolittle Raid on Japan, died Saturday, March 15, 2008, at his home in Salem. He...
