Attack on Oregon: The pilot who bombed Brookings returns to call for peace

Attack on Oregon: The pilot who bombed Brookings returns to call for peace: "Attack on Oregon: The pilot who bombed Brookings returns to call for peace
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
LORI TOBIAS

On Sept. 9, 1942, Brookings became the first, and ultimately only, town on the U.S. mainland to sustain a bombing attack by the Japanese during World War II.

The attack was supposed to spark an inferno in the coastal woods that would consume U.S. attention and undermine the nation's defense."