Nobuo Fujita
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Nobuo Fujita was a Japanese naval aviator of the Imperial Japanese Navy who flew a floatplane from the long-range submarine aircraft carrier I-25 and conducted the Lookout Air Raids in southern Oregon
Nobuo Fujita sittingdown
Japanese submarine I-26. The bulbous plane hangar and the catapult are visible forward of the conning tower.
Nobuo Fujita standing by his Yokosuka E14Y "Glen"
Letter of appreciation from Ronald Reagan to Fujita
Brookings, Oregon
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Brookings is a city in Curry County, Oregon, United States. It was named after John E. Brookings, president of the Brookings Lumber & Box Company, who founded the city in 1908. As of the 2020 census,
Nobuo Fujita
…bomb the contiguous United States. Using incendiary bombs, his mission was to start massive forest fires in the Pacific Northwest near the city of Brookings, Oregon, with the objective of drawing the U.S. military's resources away from the Pacific Theater. The strategy was also later used in the Japanese fire balloon…
An aerial view of Brookings, Oregon, and its coastline
Crew looking out of camp building windows, Brookings Timber and Lumber Company, Brookings, c. 1919
Coastline of Brookings as seen from U.S. Highway 101
The climate of Brookings is so mild that palm trees can grow there.