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作者：随便 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
历史上叫做：Ellwood shelling，以及 Oregon bombings。
Ellwood shelling
The first Axis bombs to fall on mainland American soil during the war were on February 23, 1942. A Japanese I-17 submarine commanded by Captain Nishino Kozo shelled the Ellwood oil facilities near Goleta, located up the beach from Santa Barbara.
Nishino reported by radio to Tokyo that he had left Santa Barbara in flames, even though only a catwalk and a pumphouse were damaged. Total damage from the shelling was estimated to be approximately $500; there were no injuries. Many of the shells fired by the submarine landed miles inland, in the chaparral-covered hills behind the oil production facilities.
The Civilian Defense control center in San Francisco's City Hall was activiated when the news arrived from Goleta of the enemy attack. Police Chief Charles W. Dullea put all officers on standby for emergency duty.
After the war it was discovered that Nishino had visited the Ellwood oil facilities in the 1930's as a skipper on an oil tanker. Apparently he stumbled into a field of prickly pear cactus. One theory to explain why he chose Ellwood as a target was that Captain Nishino never forgave the ridicule he received from his American hosts that day, and came back seeking revenge. Nishino was killed in August 1942 when his submarine was sunk off of New Caledonia.
On the night of February 24-25, 1942 there an incident remembered as The Battle for Los Angeles inwhich several thousand anti-aircraft rounds were fired by the Army at an unidentified target near Santa Monica. It was later officialy determined to be a lost weather balloon though this may not be true. [1] [2]
Oregon bombings
On the night of June 21/22 1942, two days after they shelled a Canadian radio compass station at Estevan Point on Vancouver Island a Japanese submarine surfaced near the Columbia River in Oregon, and fired shells at nearby Fort Stevens. Only a baseball backstop was damaged. This was the only shelling of an American mainland military installation during World War II.
Japanese submarine I-25On September 9, 1942, A small Japanese aircraft, a Yokosuka E14Y1, was launched from the Japanese submarine I-25. Piloted by Nobuo Fujita, it flew over Oregon and dropped 170lb incendiary bombs on Mount Emily, near Brookings, Oregon. The intention was to start a large forest fire. However, they did not cause significant damage. This was the first time the American mainland had been bombed by a foreign power from the air.
Nobuo Fujita standing by his Yokosuka E14Y "Glen".
Nobuo FujitaThree weeks later on September 29, 1942, Japanese plane again bombed Mt. Emily, Oregon. San Francisco Civil Defense intensified preparedness. The I-25 submarine, which launched the plane, then sinks two tankers off the coast.
On November 28, 1942 a preliminary air raid alert and radio silence was ordered by the San Francisco Air Defense Wing. The 25th alert of the war lasted 45 minutes.
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Fire balloons
Japan launched fire balloons at the U.S. from October 1944 to August 1945. The bombs were to sail over the Pacific Ocean and land in the United States, causing forest fires and major destruction. They would land in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Michigan and Iowa, as well as Mexico and Canada, but caused little damage.
The only casualties from these bombs--the only deaths on mainland America from World War II--occurred on May 5, 1945. Elsie Mitchell and five children were killed after one of these bombs they dragged from the woods exploded in Lakeview, Oregon.
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