The American Pilot Who Forgave His Japanese Captors

On this episode of Our American Stories, in the dark months after Pearl Harbor, the United States launched the Doolittle Raid, a daring strike on Tokyo meant to lift American spirits. Among the men who volunteered was Jacob DeShazer, a young bombardier whose life would take a turn few could imagine. Captured and imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp, he endured starvation, torture, and isolation. Yet years later, the man who once bombed Japan returned not as a soldier, but as a missionary. His journey from vengeance to mercy changed lives on both sides of the Pacific. Told by his daughter, Carol Aiko DeShazer Dixon, author of Return of the Raider: A Doolittle Raider’s Story of War & Forgiveness, this is the story of how a World War II American soldier found peace after unimaginable suffering.

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