A bit of history

[Old Navy]

I was up shootin last week and took this pic of the mountain in the background. This area is on the extreme Southern Oregon coast. For those who enjoy history, this is the only place in the US mainland where the Japs dropped a bomb from an airplane. They snuck in a sub close to shore and assembled a float plane on deck with an incendiary bomb. The bomb landed close to the peak of the side facing the camera. Their idea was to create a forest fire and mess up the Brookings company lumber supply. Japanese lumber buyers had frequented Brookings in the late 30's early 40's, so this was the intel they gathered to make the attack. The bomb blew up but didn't start a fire. Remnants of it were recovered and there is a trail to the actual bomb site. In the early 1960's the pilot returned to Brookings and presented his family Samurai sword to the Mayor as a jesture of peace.
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To add a little more they sent a bunch of high altitude balloons with incendiary bombs over with the same purpose. One of them landed in the desert in the very northwest corner of Utah.

 

[Tesoro]

To add a little more they sent a bunch of high altitude balloons with incendiary bombs over with the same purpose. One of them landed in the desert in the very northwest corner of Utah.

If you ever find something that looks like this now you will know what it is! I'm always looking in the oregon desert!

 

[Tesoro]

The only American casualties on American soil during WW2 was a woman and children killed by ordinance dropped by a balloon out of Brookings Oregon.

It was in Bly ( eastern oregon high desert). A preacher's family found one on a sunday picnic and messed with it. It exploded and killed wife and 5 kids while he was yelling at them from a distance to not touch it. Actually it killed 7 because his wife was pregnant.