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- Born in Nara Prefecture, Japan, Mitsuo Fuchida was a clever, outspoken, and personally fearless pilot during World War II. He entered the Naval Academy in 1921 where he met and befriended classmate Minoru Genda and discovered the love of flying airplanes. Specializing in horizontal bombing, Fuchida gained such prowess that he was made an instructor. He was shortly after promoted to lieutenant-commander and was accepted into the Naval Staff College. Fuchida joined the aircraft carrier Akagi in 1939 as a flight commander where he was now an experienced pilot with over 3,000 hours of flight experience. He was the commander of the Japanese attack force during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He then stayed on as the air officer of the Akagi's attack force and personally led air raids against American and other allied bases in New Guinea, Australia, and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Fuchida was sidelined during the naval battle of Midway on June 4, 1942 after an sudden attack of appendicitis, where he was wounded when be broke both of his ankles after he fell from a ladder during the fire fighting after the Akagi was hit by U.S. bombers. After spending most of 1942 in a naval hospital, he returned to active duty and was active as a staff air officer and squadron leader until the end of the war in 1945. During the late 1940's Fuchida became a minister and wrote about his life, all about the Pearl Harbor attack and Midway in a book titled "Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan." Mitsuo Fuchida died in 1976.
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Songwriter ("Don't Worry 'Bout Me", "Fools Rush In", "Day In - Day Out", "Give Me the Simple Life"), pianist, author, composer and arranger, educated in public schools, he accompanied vaudeville singers and made recordings of both his piano solos and of his own orchestra. He worked with Bix Beiderbecke, Miff Mole, Frankie Trumbauer and the Dorsey brothers. He formed and conducted his own jazz recording orchestras, and wrote books on piano method. He also arranged for music publishers, and toured with a US-government-sponsored ASCAP (which he had joined in 1929) group in 1955, entertaining overseas.
His chief musical collaborators included Johnny Mercer, Harry Ruby, Ted Koehler, Sammy Gallop, Harry Woods and Mitchell Parish. His other song compositions include "Out In the Cold Again", "Truckin'", "Big Man From the South", "Take Me", "Maybe You'll Be There", "Stay On the Right Side, Sister", "Here's To My Lady", "I Can't Face the Music", "Good for Nothin' Joe", "Song of the Bayou" (Victor Phone Company award), "Suite of Moods", "Soliloquy", "Spring Fever", "Sapphire", "Serenata", "Silhouette", "On the Green", "Floogie Walk", "Got No Time", "The Ghost of Smokey Joe", "Fifth Avenue Bus", "Jumping Jack", "Lady On a Late Evening", "Love Is a Merry-Go-Round", "What Goes Up Must Come Down", "Savage In My Soul" and "I Wish I Could Tell You".- Art Director
- Art Department
Richard Irvine was born on 10 April 1910 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He was an art director, known for Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Foreign Correspondent (1940) and Vicki (1953). He died on 30 March 1976 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg was born on 27 October 1876 in Pamekasan, Dutch Indies. She was an actress, known for One Night... a Train (1968), Young Hearts (1936) and Zo'n rustige straat (1961). She was married to Willem Royaards. She died on 30 March 1976 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.