JAPANESE BOMB IN OREGON
POSSIBLE AERIAL ATTACK (Hec. 5 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15. The United States Western Defence Command is investigating the possibility that a Japanese aeroplane dropped an incendiary bomb on the southern Oregon coast on September 9 in the first aerial attack on continental United States. Lieutenant-General De Witt has issued a communique stating that personnel of the United States Forestry Service discovered bomb fragments bearing Japanese markings near Mount Emily, north of Brookings. At 6 a.m. on September 9 a small unidentified seaplane was observed coming inland from the sea. At 6.24 a.m. a forestry observer saw a seaplane come from the west, circle, and return to the sea. The seaplane did not bear insignia anq was of a type which might be carried on a submarine. At 11 a.m. an Army patrol aeroplane sighted and bombed an unidentified submarine 30 miles off shore in the same general vicinity. The results are not known. At 12.20 p.m. a small fire was observed three miles south of Mount Emily. Forestry patrols found a small crater in which. were 401b of metal. Fragments bore Japanese ideographs, possibly indicating the arsenal where the bomb was manufactured.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23745, 17 September 1942, Page 5
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