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Mount Emily
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 from the Pacific Ocean and from the California state line. Wheeler Ridge Japanese Bombing Site On September 9, 1942, the Japanese submarine ''I-25'' surfaced near Cape Blanco, Oregon, and launched a Yokosuka E14Y "Glen" seaplane piloted by Nubuo 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. See also * American Theater (World War II) The American Theater was a thea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chetco River
The Chetco River is a stream located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Oregon. It drains approximately of Curry County. Flowing through a rugged and isolated coastal region, it descends rapidly from about to sea level at the Pacific Ocean. Except for the lowermost , the river is located entirely within the Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest. The river rises in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness, northwest of Chetco Peak at the junction of the Oregon Coast Range and the Klamath Mountains. It flows generally north, west, and then southwest, before emptying into the ocean between Brookings and Harbor, approximately north of the California state line. The Chetco River's watershed remains largely undeveloped, protected by the Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest and the Kalmiopsis Wilderness. The upper of the river have been designated Wild and Scenic since 1988. Native Americans have lived in the Chetco River's watershed for the last one to three thousand yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nubuo Fujita
(1911 – 30 September 1997) was a Japanese naval aviator and Warrant officer, warrant flying officer of the Imperial Japanese Navy who flew a floatplane from the long-range submarine aircraft carrier and conducted the Lookout Air Raids in southern Oregon on September 9, 1942, making him the only Axis powers, Axis pilot during World War II to aerial bomb the contiguous United States. Using Incendiary device, incendiary bombs, his mission was to start massive forest fires in the Pacific Northwest near the city of Brookings, Oregon with the objective of drawing the U.S. military's resources away from the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II, Pacific Theater. The strategy was also later used in the Japanese fire balloon campaign. Early life and military career Nobuo Fujita joined the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1932 and became a pilot in 1933. Fujita also had a younger brother who was killed in the war. Pearl Harbor and U.S. West Coast Fujita was on board during the attack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest
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Natural Features On The National Register Of Historic Places In Oregon
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