Editing Brookings, Oregon (section)

=== World War II ===
{{Main|Lookout Air Raids}}
On September&nbsp;9, 1942, [[Mount Emily]] near Brookings became the only site in the mainland United States and the second in the continental territory after the [[Battle of Dutch Harbor|bombing of Dutch Harbor]] to [[Lookout Air Raids|suffer aerial bombardment]] during [[World War II]]. A [[Yokosuka E14Y|Japanese floatplane]] piloted by [[Nobuo Fujita]] was launched from [[Japanese submarine I-25|submarine ''I-25'']]. The plane was armed with two incendiary bombs on a mission intended to start massive fires in the dense forests of the Pacific Northwest.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/ww2/Pages/threats-bombs.aspx|title=State of Oregon: World War II - Bombs Fall on Oregon: Japanese Attacks on the State|website=sos.oregon.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Goyer |first=Norm |title=The Day a Japanese Plane Bombed Oregon |url=https://eugeneleeslover.com/Japanese_bomb_Oregon.html |website=eugeneleeslover.com}}</ref>

Fujita was invited to Brookings in 1962 and, as a token of friendship, gifted the city his 400-year-old family [[katana]]. Fujita later sponsored a trip to Japan for Brookings high school students and returned to the city three more times in the early 1990s. In 1997, Fujita was made an honorary citizen of Brookings by the city council.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rosman |first=John |date=7 December 2016 |title=The unlikely bond between an Oregon town and the man who bombed it |url=https://www.opb.org/artsandlife/series/history/nobuo-fujita-brookings-oregon-world-war-2/ |work=OPB}}</ref>