A Yokosuka E14Y launched from the Japanese submarine I25 near Cape Blanco, Oregon dropped incendiary bombs on Mount Emily, Oregon, in an attempt to start a forest fire.
The effort did in fact result in a small fire, but the rain drenched bush wasn't conducive to a conflagration. One small fire was put out by the Forest Service.
No damage was done, but Franklin Roosevelt ordered a news blackout of the event.
It was the first areal bombing of the continental United States.
The pilot, Nobuo Fujita, survived the war and later visited nearby Brookings. He donated his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city. He died in 1997 at age 85.
Hitler relieved Wilhelm List of command of Army Group A and took over command of it personally. List never returned to service. He was charged with war crimes after the war and sentenced to life imprisonment. However, he was released in 1952. He died in 1971 at the age of 91.
The British landed at Majunga in western Madagascar in order to end remaining Vichy French resistance on the island.
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