Five Attacks on U.S. Soil During the War-- Part 2

3.  BOMBING OF FORT STEVENS AND LOOKOUT AIR RAIDS--  The only attack on a military target on the continental U.S. took place on June 21, 1942, on the Oregon coastline.  A Japanese submarine, the I-25, trailed a fishing boat to avoid minefields to north of the Columbia River and surfaced by the Civil War-era Fort Stevens and fired 17 shells.  The fort did not fire back.

In September 1942, the same I-25 was back and launched a Yokosuku E14Y float plane which dropped 2 incendiary bombs on Brookings, Oregon, but there were no fires.  Later that month, there was another bombing.


--GreGen