29 Sep 1942

United States
  • Japanese submarine I-25 surfaced off Cape Blanco, Oregon in the early morning darkness. Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita took off in I-25’s Yokosuka E14Y “Glen” floatplane and flew inland from the Cape Blanco lighthouse and dropped two incendiary bombs with minimal results. This was the second and last ever aerial bombardment of the United States mainland. ww2dbase [Japanese Attacks on the Continental United States | Nobuo Fujita | Cape Blanco, Oregon | DS]

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