The Pearl Harbor Pilot Who Couldn't Be Killed

On the morning of December 7, 1941, Commander Mitsuo Fuchida led 183 aircraft over Pearl Harbor and radioed the three words that pulled America into a world war: Tora, Tora, Tora. Within ninety minutes, more than two thousand Americans were dead. By every law of probability, Fuchida should have died too — at Midway, at Hiroshima, again and again in the years that followed. He never did. Death kept passing him over, and he spent the rest of his life trying to understand why.