------BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- At 06:53 AM 6/24/97 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:

Alaska was not only bombed by a foreign country (ie Japan) but it was the only continental US location to actualy be invaded. Do a search on Kiska and Dutch Harbor on Yahoo....

Hawaii was also bombed and last time I checked it was part of the US, the same goes for Wake Is., Midway Is., and Phillipines.

Though neither Alaska nor Hawaii were states at the time. Oregon was actually hit twice. June 21, 1942, Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia in Oregon is fired upon by the deck gun of a Japanese submarine. The first continental costal battery to be attacked by a foreign enemy (not counting those Southerners) since the War of 1812. The Japs fire 17 shells. No apparent damage. Fort Stevens is unable to depress its guns sufficiently to hit the submarine. A draw. See http://www.ohwy.com/or/f/ftsteven.htm and http://www.owt.com/phs/classrooms/peto/3forts/stevens.html Oregon also suffered the U.S. Mainland's only domestic casualties due to enemy action when a teacher and members of her family on a hike in southern Oregon were killed by a Japanese balloon bomb. (These bombs were attached to balloons released from Japanese submarines off the coast.) That doesn't excuse Oreganos being commies, however. DCF ------BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM6/ZuIVO4r4sgSPhAQGpYwP+PBaKiveJRNcDYz5VyCtUdKJeTgBIsNIH D31prwQn+BeiMKXZ26KLfRfVBbK4441pLHna1BlQ3bc4whjN/pTobVQon4W8Y1zm 2Rvu2dOInzVZKBTgRwWTxl5Bm+sjwt+tI3FNCuQUHaBiP1moECaXlr5d5Zzby6aa mbR6CVG6L/k= =xSVQ ------END PGP SIGNATURE-----