September 9,1942 is a little known historical date,it marks the only time in WWII that the US mainland was bombed. A Japanese submarine carrying a float plane surfaced off the Brookings,Oregon coast in the early morning and launched the plane with a catapult. Two 176 lb. incendiary bombs were in place beneath the wings. It only took a couple of minutes until they were over their target (the forest) they dropped the bombs and circled once to check their mark and returned to the submarine. There were a couple of things they hadn't counted on...an alert forestry student on fire watch had spotted them and the bombing and number two, the wet condition of the forest kept the fire from spreading before it was under control. The moral of the story is next time you want to complain about the rain remember it sustains us in more ways that one.
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