05-28-2017, 11:29 AM
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After the War, pilot Nobuo Fujita grew remorseful for his mission, the only attacks by plane on the mainland US. He decided to do something about it.
He sent $1,000 as a donation for children's books about Japan to the library of the town he had bombed "so that there wouldn't be another war between the United States and Japan,'' Nancy Brendlinger, the Mayor of Brookings, said.
This generosity inspired the town to pay $3,000 to fly Fujita, who had piloted two different bombing raids on their town, weeks apart, to Oregon in 1962. He did not bring his family sword as an intended gift, but as an instrument of suicide as he expected to be insulted and pelted by eggs and such.
He later returned the favor by paying for several local Oregonians to visit Japan, and he made several more trips to Bookings before he died of lung cancer in 1997. During one trip, he planted trees in the forest he bombed "mark the spot where he dropped the bombs."
On his death bed, the town of Brookings recognized him as an honorary citizen.
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/03/world/...erica.html
He sent $1,000 as a donation for children's books about Japan to the library of the town he had bombed "so that there wouldn't be another war between the United States and Japan,'' Nancy Brendlinger, the Mayor of Brookings, said.
This generosity inspired the town to pay $3,000 to fly Fujita, who had piloted two different bombing raids on their town, weeks apart, to Oregon in 1962. He did not bring his family sword as an intended gift, but as an instrument of suicide as he expected to be insulted and pelted by eggs and such.
He later returned the favor by paying for several local Oregonians to visit Japan, and he made several more trips to Bookings before he died of lung cancer in 1997. During one trip, he planted trees in the forest he bombed "mark the spot where he dropped the bombs."
On his death bed, the town of Brookings recognized him as an honorary citizen.
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/03/world/...erica.html