![]() ![]() The Jet stream transported these devices to at least fifteen America states including Wyoming and Iowa. They hoped to set American forests ablaze. In the last two years of World War II Japan launched thousands of Fu-Go balloon bombs carrying incendiary explosives. Pearl Harbor Attack, 7 December 1941: Torpedo planes attack “Battleship Row” at about 08:00 on 7 December, seen from a Japanese aircraft. government but the threat and the danger from Japan were real. ![]() This was a gross overreaction by the U.S. Japanese-Americans were shipped to internment camps and denied their constitutional rights. That same month two remote Aleutian islands, Attu and Kiska, were invaded and occupied by Japanese troops. In June of that year Fort Stephens in Oregon was bombarded by the deck guns of a Japanese submarine. In February of 1942, a Japanese submarine shelled the Ellwood oil refinery near Santa Barbara with its 140mm deck guns. The 1942 Rose Bowl was initially cancelled but then moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina where Oregon State beat Duke, 20 to 16. Japanese submarines prowled off the West coast. The “Day of Infamy”was followed by several months of fear – particularly on the West coast of the United States. ![]()
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