Comments on: WWII Military trivia

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 23:29:08 +0000

I’m surprised it wasn’t in the Wikipedia entry, but if I recall correctly, the attack was intended to duplicate the horrendous damage of the Tillamook Burn, which was actually created by two different fires prior to the war. A third fire in 1945 is suspected to have been caused by a Japanese incendiary bomb.

By: Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace

Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 21:44:37 +0000

An often forgotten part of the war was the Japanese bombing of Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians… a bizarre attempt to invade the US starting as far left as possible! They did indeed make beachheads on Kiska and Attu islands, and the US Eleventh Air Force dropped almost 27,000 bombs (on US territory!!) before US and Canadian marines landed and eventually evicted them. http://www.nps.gov/aleu/WWII_in_the_Aleutians.htm

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:25:04 +0000

No prob. No fault to you, since I left a key consonant out of the word “show” :D

By: sun bin

sun bin — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:15:07 +0000

“firebombs on U.S. forests ”

the enemy of earth! greenpeace should sue him :)

By: Curzon

Curzon — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 17:35:31 +0000

What a great story (from the Wikipedia article):

Fujita would be invited back to Brookings in 1962, and he presented to the town his family’s 400-year-old samurai sword in friendship after the Japanese government was assured he would not be tried as a war criminal.

Impressed by his welcome in the United States, Fujita invited three female students from Brookings to Japan in 1985. He later received a dedicatory letter from President Ronald Reagan “with admiration for your kindness and generosity.”

By: Younghusband

Younghusband — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 16:37:54 +0000

Thanks Joe.

I once saw a Discovery Channel special on the sub-launched floatplane. Some pretty wikked kit!

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 16:02:14 +0000

The only reason he doesn’t who up on Wikipedia is because you left a key vowel out of his name.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:27:15 +0000

is this him?

Sept. 9-10 — A Japanese floatplane flies two missions, dropping firebombs on U.S. forests in Oregon — the only bombing of the continental U.S. during the war. Newspapers in the U.S. voluntarily withhold this information.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 13:12:50 +0000

Was he involved with the balloon bombs?

By: Alexander Karatis

Alexander Karatis — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 09:49:31 +0000

Quite interesting! Where/when/how did this happen?

Wikipedia/Google turn up nothing on him BTW…