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During the early morning hours of September 9, 1942, in a bold attempt to retaliate for the Doolittle Raid, Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita, launched from submarine I-25, dropped incendiary bombs near Brookings, Oregon, aiming to ignite massive forest fires. https://youtu.be/oeP5EKOfJ7s?si=VmzlKaYu5XBWsKPb The operation involved a Yokosuka E14Y floatplane, catapulted into the Oregon sky with the intent…

The bombs over Brookings, Ore., were the only enemy aerial attack on the lower 48 states during the war. But the lack of any real damage left it as little more than a curious footnote in a war that spread carnage across Europe and Asia.

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