[or-roots] WWII - Japanese Bomb Oregon

[CARROLLOUC at aol.com]

I remember the blimp patrolling the coast line looking  for Japanese subs. 
The incident below was kept quiet so as not to panic the  people of Oregon or 
the rest of the West Coast. They wanted us to feel  secure.
 
However, word did leak out about the sinking of the  sub but more as a rumor, 
like the incindiary (sp) bombs that drifted from Japan  into our forest 
lands. Fortunately, the Japanese didn't realize that in the  winter the forests 
wouldn't catch fire because everything was too wet. The  bomb factory was located 
in Japan and bombed by some of our brave Army Air Corps  pilots and crews and 
that took care of sending bombs over here on the air  currents. (USAF wasn't 
made into a separate service until after the  war).
 
Carroll Cooper Summers

I  remember when our forces sank a Japanese sub just off the coast of  
Oregon.  It
never made the news so not many people knew about  it.

Dorothy




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