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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:30:11 -0400 From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com> Subject: Re: How did these people find our list? (fwd)

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.

Two Jap subs were sunk in San Francisco harbor. Unfortunately I can't find the dates, will keep looking.

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

Actualy it was a man, his wife, and two children. The two kids were playing with it when it went off. My memory tells me that the women and two kids were killed. Don't remember if she was a teacher or not. There was an interesting video recreation on TDC last month on this incident on a special on the Japanese balloon bombs.

balloons released from Japanese submarines off the coast.)

Actualy most of them were released from the Japanese mainland at specific points. If you do further research on this you will learn how they used the ballast sand in the balloons (mechanicly complicated) to track their source. All the sites were bombed and the baloons ceased. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage@ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|