Jacob Daniel DeShazer | 1912-2008
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DeShazer holds an outdoor missionary meeting in Tokyo in 1949. After he was released from prison, he returned to the United States to study at Seattle Pacific College, a Christian school. There he met his wife, and the two moved to Japan in 1948 to preach the Gospel. (Charles Gorry / Associated Press)
DeShazer attends a commemoration of the Doolittle Raiders in 2002. Eleven of the bombers are still alive. (Bruce L. Flashnick / Associated Press)