Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!csanders From: csanders@ucbvax.ARPA (Craig S. Anderson) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <10310@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Sun, 8-Sep-85 17:08:08 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10310 Posted: Sun Sep 8 17:08:08 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 9-Sep-85 03:07:13 EDT References: <1392@uwmacc.UUCP> <7800411@inmet.UUCP> <1178@ihlpg.UUCP> Reply-To: csanders@ucbvax.UUCP (Craig S. Anderson) Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 30 >-------- >> [Also Unknown] >> My understanding was that during WWII the Japanese took territory >> on an American island off the coast of Alaska, and bombed both >> Alaska and California. >> >> Perhaps you should not be so quick with the "no living American" >> stuff. >------- >The two Aleutian islands taken by the Japanese were uninhabited. They >never bombed Alaska or California. Perhaps you are confusing the movie >1941 with reality. Even Pearl Harbor was only an attack on a military >base, not an invasion or an attack on civilian targets. Civilian >casualties at Pearl Harbor were very small. No living American has >experienced an invasion of America. >-- The Japanese DID make a few attacks on the American mainland. A rogue Japanese submarine surfaced off the coast of California in the days following Pearl Harbour and fired some shells at an oil refinery. Not much damage was done. Also, near the end of the war, the Japanese made lots of parachute bombs that they would release high in the atmosphere to be blown by winds over to the U.S. Though most landed harmlessly in the ocean, a few made it to the mainland. One of them landed in a tree in Oregon; when a woman went up to investigate, it exploded, killing her. BTW, the Japanese did invade Guam, which was (and still is, I think) a U.S. territory. Craig Anderson. >Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL ihnp4!ihlpg!tan