Wheeler Ridge Japanese Bombing Site
National Register of Historic Places

Wheeler Ridge Japanese Bombing Site

Brookings, Curry County, Oregon
Listed
July 5, 2006
Type
Site
Period
Listed
Ref No.
06000589

About this property

Mount Emily (Tolowa: en-may) is a mountain in the Klamath Mountains of southwestern Oregon in the United States. It is located in southern Curry County in the extreme southwest corner of the state, near Brookings, approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) from the Pacific Ocean and 5 miles (8.0 km) from the California state line. On September 9, 1942, the Japanese submarine I-25 surfaced near Cape Blanco, Oregon, and launched a Yokosuka E14Y "Glen" seaplane piloted by Nobuo Fujita, who dropped incendiary bombs on Mount Emily in an unsuccessful attempt to start a major forest fire. This made Mount Emily the second place in the continental United States to be bombed by an enemy aircraft, with Dutch Harbor occurring three months earlier in Unalaska, Alaska. The site of the bombing was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the Wheeler Ridge Japanese Bombing Site in July 2006. "Mount Emily". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. "Topographic map of Mount Emily". opentopomap.org. Retrieved May 11, 2023.

Location

Brookings, Curry County, Oregon
42.07810, -124.11243

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Wheeler Ridge Japanese Bombing Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 2006.

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