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1942 Lookout Air Raids... Oregon attacked...
1942 Lookout Air Raids... Oregon attacked...
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September 15, 1942
MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, Sept. 15, 1942
* Lookout Air Raids - Brookings, Oregon
* Incendiary bombs from a Yokosuka E14Y
* Japanese naval aviator Nobuo Fujita
The front page has a banner headline: "JAP BOMB FIRES U. S. FOREST" with subhead and small related map. Nice for display. This event was the first time the contiguous United States was bombed by an enemy aircraft. Always nice to have notable events in history reported in this World famous publication.
Complete with all 20 pages, light toning at the margins, minor rubbing along the central fold, small binding holes along the spine, some small ink notations including two on the front page but does not affect the related report, generally nice.
wikipedia notes: In September of 1942, Mount Emily, near Brookings, became the first site in the continental United States to suffer aerial bombardment in wartime. A Japanese floatplane piloted by Nobuo Fujita was launched from submarine I-25. The plane was armed with incendiary bombs on a mission to start massive fires in the dense forests of the Pacific Northwest. The attack caused only minor damage. Fujita would be invited back to Brookings in 1962 and he presented the town his family's 400-year-old samurai sword in friendship after the Japanese government was given assurances that he would not be tried as a war criminal. Brookings made him an honorary citizen several days before his death in 1997.
Category: The 20th Century
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