After launching from the I-25 submarine on the early morning of 9 September, 1942 off of Cape Blanco, Oregon, CPO Fujita and his crewman Petty Officer Shoji Okuda headed for the mainland of the United States with their two incendiary bombs. A fire warden and forestry worker both heard the unidentified aircraft, above the morning fog sounding like a model A Ford backfiring. Howard Gardner the fire warden phoned it in from his watch tower and was met later on by Keith Johnson the forestry student working nearby to investigate wisps of smoke coming up from the forest at around noon. Neither person thought much of the unidentified enemy plane flying into continental US airspace. CPO Fujita had flown in at a couple of thousand feet over the heavy morning fog, and descended to release their highly flammable payload about 50 miles inland over the forest near Mt Emily. Both bombs were released within 5 or 6 miles, and after circling once to confirm the detonations, the Glen and its crew returned in the direction of the ocean and the waiting sub to report a successful mission. When Gardner and Johnson arrived at the impact area, they were surprised to see a smoldering scattered fire and a bomb crater in the center. Over the next day, they examined the scene of the crater with the FBI, and gathered about 65 pounds of metal fragment with Japanese markings, proving without a doubt that the Imperial Japanese Navy had indeed bombed the continental US. The result? A smoldering fire about 60 feet across with a crater in the center. The attackers hadn't counted on the unusually heavy rains and foggy conditions of the Oregon forest to inhibit what might well have been a devastating forest fire. The fact that the US government had instituted a strict ban on broadcasting weather information on the west coast didn't help I-25 or the crew of the Glen with their mission. After the FBI was called in the next day and the nature of the situation was realized, 4 additional fighter planes were stationed in neighboring Washington state on the coast, the FBI conducted a thorough but fruitless search for float planes that might be hidden in nearby lakes, and a strict (almost) blackout was ordered on the west coast area. The US government tried unsuccessfully to keep the story quiet, but there were too many witnesses and outraged citizens as a result. Yokosuka E14Y "Glen": generously free on sharecg by Briney C4d 6xl, Poser7, Vue6Infinite, PS Cs3