Talk:Lookout Air Raids

Didnt a bombing by hot air incideary bomb drop cause a fire Washington State?
Didnt a incidary bomb dropped by a Japanease bomb balloon cause fire in washinton State? Even stopping for awhile the electric power to Hanford site of nuclear research?! Teslaedsonfan (talk) 15:26, 11 February 2011 (UTC)


 * For a definitive answer with references, this question is best asked at the Reference desk/Humanities. This page is for discusssion regarding improving the Lookout Air Raids article. (I believe that the first answer is yes, though.) - 220.101 User talk:220.101.28.25\ 15:43, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

"Mainland" US attack
The intro. read that it was the first time the mainland US was attacked by enemy forces in WWII. I changed it to "contiguous" (I mistakenly believed that Dutch Harbor is on the mainland of the US, although Alaska wasn't a state during WWII but, more importantly, is indeed contiguous to the rest of the US).


 * Alaska is not contiguous with the first 48 states, as Canada is in the way. Binksternet (talk) 19:14, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Perhaps a reference citation would be an appropriate way to avoid conflicting individual interpretations. Thewellman (talk) 19:52, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

The link to "continental United States" or "contiguous United States" specifically says it excludes Alaska and Hawaii. I get the argument that Alaska is on the continent, and that it's part of a contiguous body of land, but the term is commonly used to refer to the everything but Alaska/Hawaii. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.164.151.194 (talk) 17:03, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Correction misleading -
the referance to "Mainland US" is incorrect as the bombing was where Naco's AZ is today; but it was in Mexico at the time not AZ USA. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.4.39.4 (talk) 02:26, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

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A personal note
Many years ago, my mother told me several times that the Japanese shelled Brookings. I could find no other account of this, so ended up assuming that she had gotten the better-known shelling of Fort Stevens with the name of this southern Oregon town. (She often got facts like these confused.) So I want to add this note acknowledging my pleasure discovering that, many decades later, she was right. (Her other memory of WWII in Oregon -- visiting the beach to find barbed wire all about -- I never doubted.) -- llywrch (talk) 00:58, 18 May 2020 (UTC)