Lookout Air Raids

The Lookout Air Raids were minor but historic Japanese air raids that occurred in the mountains of Oregon, several miles outside Brookings during World War II.

Lookout Air Raids
Part of the American theater and Pacific theater of World War II

Lookout air raid schema
DateSeptember 9 and September 29, 1942
Location
Result Japanese failure to ignite forest fires
Belligerents
 United States  Japan
Commanders and leaders
Keith V. Johnson Tagami Akiji
Nobuo Fujita
Strength
1 patrol of fire lookouts Sea:
1 submarine
Air:
1 aircraft

On September 9, 1942, a Japanese Yokosuka E14Y Glen floatplane, launched from a Japanese submarine, dropped two incendiary bombs with the intention of starting a forest fire. However, with the efforts of a patrol of fire lookouts and weather conditions not amenable to a fire, the damage done by the attack was minor. The attack was the first time the contiguous United States was bombed by an enemy aircraft. It was also the second time the continental United States was attacked by enemy aircraft during World War II, the first being the bombing of Dutch Harbor three months earlier.

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