Bombardment of Fort Stevens was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Oregon, 1942.
On the night of June 21, 1942, the Japanese submarine I-25, under Lieutenant Commander Akiji Tagami, surfaced near the mouth of the Columbia River and fired its deck gun at Fort Stevens, a coastal defense post in Oregon. About seventeen shells fell around the fort. Its commander ordered a blackout and, judging the submarine out of range, told the gun crews not to return fire so as not to reveal the fort's positions to the enemy. The shelling did little harm, most rounds landing in a marsh or a baseball field, with damage limited chiefly to telephone cables. An Army bomber spotted the submarine but failed to hit it before it dived away. Minor as it was, the attack has the distinction of being the only time during the war that a military base in the contiguous United States came under fire from an enemy warship.
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