Lookout Air Raids was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Oregon, 1942.
In September 1942, Japan carried out the only aerial bombing of the continental United States by an enemy aircraft during the war. On September 9, the submarine I-25 surfaced off the southern Oregon coast and catapulted a small floatplane flown by Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita, who dropped incendiary bombs on the forested slopes near Brookings hoping to touch off a major forest fire. Fire lookouts spotted the smoke and, with forestry crews, quickly contained the small blazes, helped by damp conditions from recent rain. Fujita flew a second, similarly ineffective mission on September 29. The raids caused no significant damage, but they demonstrated that the mainland could be reached from the sea. In a notable postwar coda, Fujita was invited back to Brookings years later in a gesture of reconciliation and became an honored guest of the town.
Approximate location. The nearest recorded settlement is shown; the exact site is unrecorded.
This page covers Lookout Air Raids. A full Aubrey report for the area pulls together this battle alongside historic sites, land records, and everything else the record holds within a few miles:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Content adapted from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Wikipedia source.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in the US, drawing on NRHP records, battlefield archives, census history and geological data to tell the full story of a place.