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Articles from the May 19, 2013 edition


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  • The Samurai pilot who bombed Oregon

    May 19, 2013

    Launch from submarine By Finn J.D. John It was a little after 6 a.m. on September 9, 1942. A tiny seaplane with red balls painted on its wings was making its way through the skies over Brookings, Oregon. At the controls was a young man named Nobuo Fujita; behind him, in the observer’s seat, looking intensely at the ground, was another, named Shoji Okuda. The two of them were looking for a good place to initiate the first air strike ever to be made on the continental United States. Fujita’s plan This whole gambit had been Fujita’s idea. Fujit...

  • Planting fish in the high lakes

    May 19, 2013

    McKenzie River Reflections...