Talk:Lookout Air Raids

Didnt a bombing by hot air incideary bomb drop cause a fire Washington State?

Didnt a incidary bomb dropped by a Japanease bomb balloon cause fire in washinton State? Even stopping for awhile the electric power to Hanford site of nuclear research?! Teslaedsonfan (talk) 15:26, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

For a definitive answer with references, this question is best asked at the Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities. This page is for discusssion regarding improving the Lookout Air Raids article. (I believe that the first answer is yes, though.) - 220.101 talk^\Contribs 15:43, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

"Mainland" US attack

The intro. read that it was the first time the mainland US was attacked by enemy forces in WWII. I changed it to "contiguous" (I mistakenly believed that Dutch Harbor is on the mainland of the US, although Alaska wasn't a state during WWII but, more importantly, is indeed contiguous to the rest of the US).

Alaska is not contiguous with the first 48 states, as Canada is in the way. Binksternet (talk) 19:14, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

• Perhaps a reference citation would be an appropriate way to avoid conflicting individual interpretations. Thewellman (talk) 19:52, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

The link to "continental United States" or "contiguous United States" specifically says it excludes Alaska and Hawaii. I get the argument that Alaska is on the continent, and that it's part of a contiguous body of land, but the term is commonly used to refer to the everything but Alaska/Hawaii. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.164.151.194 (talk) 17:03, 9 March 2021 (UTC)

Correction misleading -

the referance to "Mainland US" is incorrect as the bombing was where Naco's AZ is today; but it was in Mexico at the time not AZ USA. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.4.39.4 (talk) 02:26, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

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A personal note

Many years ago, my mother told me several times that the Japanese shelled Brookings. I could find no other account of this, so ended up assuming that she had gotten the better-known shelling of Fort Stevens with the name of this southern Oregon town. (She often got facts like these confused.) So I want to add this note acknowledging my pleasure discovering that, many decades later, she was right. (Her other memory of WWII in Oregon -- visiting the beach to find barbed wire all about -- I never doubted.) -- llywrch (talk) 00:58, 18 May 2020 (UTC)