Axis Pilot Became the Only Man to Bomb Contiguous US, Years Later He Gets a Message from the Town He Targeted

HawkTheSlayer wrote:Good article.

Elizabeth Theus wrote:

Nobuo Fujita was conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1932 and began flight training a year later. In 1935, he began testing experimental Zero fighters. After his West Coast bombing mission, he made only one more reconnaissance flight, over Noumea, New Caledonia, and spent the rest of the war in Japan training new pilots. (United States Naval Institute)

The date was Sept. 9, 1942.

Less than a year earlier, imperial Japan launched a surprise attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, a major American naval base. Instead of crippling the United States, this attack only awakened the giant. The war was now in full swing, and with U.S. bombers touching the Japanese home isles under Col. James Doolittle’s raids, the reality was setting in for the Pacific empire.

Amid this chaos, a Japanese submarine quietly surfaced off the Oregon coast.

Nobuo Fujita, a Japanese naval pilot, waited as a seaplane was pieced together by the empire’s sailors and loaded onto a deck-mounted catapult.

Finally, it was ready to launch. Fujita climbed aboard and was thrown into the air. Armed with two thermite firebombs, he set a course for the wilderness near the sleepy town of Brookings.


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