soc.history.war.world-war-ii

On Mar 20, 9:24 pm, "Jim Carew" wrote:

> BTW Japanese submarine-launched scouting type aircraft
> were sent over Seattle(Craven, 277-286)

According to Bert Webber, Retaliation: Japanese Attacks and Allied
Countermeasures on the Pacific Coast in World War II (Corvallis:
Oregon State University Press, 1975), 18, 156, this did not happen.

The overflight story was the result of a a debriefing of a Japanese
naval officer in 1945. In 1974, the staff officer, by then a retired
Lieutenant General of the Japanese Air Self Defense Forces, attributed
the error to problems in interpretation. The surviving commander of
I-26, the only submarine operating along the Washington coast at the
time, reported that on that voyage, the aircraft hanger was filled
with food and supplies for a long voyage and he carried no airplane.

Dave Wilma
Seattle