Mount Emily (
Tolowa
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: en-may ) is a mountain in the
Klamath Mountains
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of southwestern
Oregon
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in the
United States
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. It is located in southern
Curry County in the extreme southwest corner of the state, near
Brookings, approximately from the
Pacific Ocean
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and from the
California
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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
The Yokosuka E14Y ( Allied reporting name Glen) was an Imperial Japanese Navy reconnaissance seaplane transported aboard and launched from Japanese submarine aircraft carriers such as the during World War II. The Japanese Navy designation was ...
"Glen" seaplane piloted by
Nubuo Fujita, who dropped
incendiary bombs
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on Mount Emily in an unsuccessful attempt to start a major
forest fire
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.
This made Mount Emily the second place in the continental United States to be bombed by an enemy aircraft, with
Dutch Harbor
Dutch Harbor is a harbor on Amaknak Island in Unalaska, Alaska. It was the location of the Battle of Dutch Harbor in June 1942, and was one of the few sites in the United States to be subjected to aerial bombardment by a foreign power during ...
occurring three months earlier in
Unalaska, Alaska
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. The site of the bombing was listed in the
National Register of Historic Places
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as the ''Wheeler Ridge Japanese Bombing Site'' in July 2006.
See also
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American Theater (World War II)
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Owing to North and South America's geographical separation from the central theaters of ...
References
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Natural features on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon
Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest
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World War II on the National Register of Historic Places