The Bombing Of Brookings, Oregon

Redwood Voice Youth Media covers a intriguing chapter of History, and the events which commemorate it. This being, the bombing of Brookings Oregon, when on September 6th, 1942, Imperial Japanese pilot; Nubuo Fujita dropped his incendiary bombs on the Oregon forests bellow. His plane was launched from an experimental submarine that was capable of launching a seaplane. The Redwood Voice crew also partook in many of the events for the 80th anniversary, and interviewed model maker; Simon W. Herbert, as well as movie director; Ilana Sol.
-Credits-
• A Redwood Voice Youth Media Production
• Produced by Ethan Caudill-DeRego
• Cinematographers: Ethan Caudill-DeRego, Grant Meriwether, Monique Camarena, & Sebastian Monroe
• Interviewers: Monique Camarena & Ethan Caudill-DeRego
• Interviewees: Simon W. Herbert, and Ilana Sol
Information:
Chetco Community Public Library - chetcolibrary....
Samurai In The Oregon Sky - www.samuraiint...

[@Tosca767]

Great video🥰

[@victor-th4qs]

I stumbled across this bombing site in 2007. A small brass plaque was there.

[@McIntyreBible]

6:18, the next time I go to Brookings (because I live about 2 1/2 hours north of Brookings) I'm going to check those things out at the library!

[@jamesadams5695]

Great video!

[@anthonytoreson5571]

If you look around the west coast you can find pill boxs for world War 2 dad was a history teacher so got to go see a few some interesting cold war sites as well

[@johnnymartin2001]

Interesting

[@stevemcdonald1033]

What was not mentioned was that in May, 1943, a Japanese balloon-carried fire bomb exploded near the Southern Oregon town of Bly and killed school teacher Elsie Mitchell, her unborn child and 5 of her pupils. Thousands of these large, paper balloons were launched to fly high and ride a fast stream of air and then descend on the West Coast of the U. S., for the purpose of starting fires. Elsie and her students discovered the unexploded bomb in the woods and tried to drag it out into a clearing when it detonated. This program by the Japanese was mostly unsuccessful and was discontinued.

[@wolfling2039]

Thank you! I just started listening to this and my first thought was of the memorial outside Bly. It’s an attack that was intentional and should never be forgotten.

[@woland7218]

Thank you