Tuesday, September 29, 1942. The British launch Operation Braganza, and the Japanese try again in Oregon.

The British launched Operation Braganza with the goal of capturing the ground around Deir el Munassib in Egypt.  It would fail.

The Japanese tried again with a second submarine launched seaplane bombing mission against the forest in Oregon, hoping to set them on fire. They did not.

The great comedic actress Madeline Kahn was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Lahn was born to Bernard and Freda Wolfson, who divorced when she was two.  Her mother later married Hiller Kahn who adopted her.  Her mother had wanted to be an actress and for a time pursued that goal.  Kahn graduated in 1964 with a degree in speech therapy from Hofra University and began purusing an actiing career herself soon after.

Kahn in 1964.

Starting with roles on Broadway, she broke into film in 1968 and by 1972 was in the major motion picture, What's Up Doc?, which I've never seen.  The following year, she was in Paper Moon, which is a great film, for which she secured an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.  She was in a series of notable roles after that.  In the 1990s she was in the television series Cosby, which was hugely respected, but which is now probably un-airable due to the later revelations about Bill Cosby.  She died in 1999 of ovarian cancer at age 57.

Wednesday, September 9, 1942. The Japanese raid on Mt. Emily, Oregon.

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.

Pilot Nobuo Fujita who bombed Mt. Emily.

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.