Japanese 'Invasion' of America (Part 2 - Canada & Oregon)

In early 1942, fear of a Japanese invasion of the West Coast ran very high after a series of submarine attacks. In this episode, the Japanese assault Vancouver Island in Canada and attack a fort in Oregon.
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[@robertmurphy3771]

That many shells fired and no damage? Must have been imperial stormtroopers

[@josipbroztito6763]

Damn bucketheads need more practice

[@gertvanpeet3120]

An unstabilized gun on a deck that is shaking.... Bigger shops had stabilisation, like tanks nowadays. In the ww2 they had to stand still...

[@Arbiter099]

Those blast points, too accurate for Imperial Japanese

[@dave-yj9mc]

@@Arbiter099 Hahaha!!!! good one!!

[@finscreenname]

Shooting a deck gun on a rolling submarine is nothing like bullseye'ing womp rats in your T-16 back home.

[@Mereel401]

Why would a Japanese officer lie about the darkness during his attack? maybe because he was embarrassed by his crews abysmal marksmanship?

[@knutdergroe9757]

It is called, Saving face. And not a out right lie..... Lightning would not be great, And Submarines have terrible marksmanship with their deck guns. They tend to roll alot on the surface.

[@donjones4719]

Of course, no lie at all. For the purpose of looking over the dark sea at a small vertical target backed by trees in weak daylight/twilight, it was dark. Reading a newspaper standing still in one spot is no comparison at all.

[@laurencek.1580]

That coastline is rocky with choppy waves and firing from 2 miles away I am not surprised they missed.

[@whirving]

I work with a lot of optics, and dusk conditions are very hard to determine definition in. That means that at a long range, estimating distance with an optical range finder would be very iffy, as would adjusting fire from shell strikes.

[@cgaccount3669]

It could also have been cloudy. And the direction you are looking can definitely affect your eyesight

[@uselessfox5501]

THE BEAVER is the most Canadian magazine I've ever heard of

[@yuricherkasov]

"The Moose" is even more Canadian

[@deplorable_bitter_clinger7482]

A periodical called THE BEAVER does not make me think about history...

[@MrJking065]

A Magazine before Playboy? lol

[@virvisquevir3320]

chase cornell - Canadian porn?

[@donfeeney6153]

I thought that was what they called Hustler up there, eh.

[@bf945]

The Cape Estafan incident "truth may remain elusive"? 1. The subs were ordered to shell targets. 2. The sub captain claims to have shelled Cape Estafan. 3. They found an unexploded Japanese shell at the location. Yeah, and the earth is flat and the moon landing never happened.

[@Whitpusmc]

I can look down on the earth using Google Earth on my IPad and it appears flat to me. Plus old paper maps are also flat. Bridges are sometimes curved though so it’s a bit of a puzzle.

[@jammer3618]

Well said. Felton is usually stronger than this.

[@maintenancebynathan2150]

Yeah and I think Elvis and Big Foot were driving that sub!

[@danielclaudio5764]

jammer3618 His mention of it does not mean he supports it. This should be clear.

[@cgaccount3669]

4. Canada was already at war with Japan. 5. Canada was fully committed to the war against Germany. The USA would not need to push Canada to fight. It was heavily involved in the fight against Germany years before the USA joined the war. So if anything a Canadian sub attacking the USA would be more plausible. 6. The conscription act was to get French Canada more involved. Attacking a lighthouse in BC many thousands of miles from Quebec would do nothing to cause frenchmen to enlist. 7. I haven't heard anyone in Canada ever even mention the conspiracy. As it was likely made up to sell a magazine nobody reads

[@crazeelazee7524]

Broke: "The US carried a false flag attack" Woke: "The US went back in time, replaced the Japanese high command with sleeper agents and they ordered the attack on the Estevan Point lighthouse so the Japanese would be blamed"

[@Idahoguy10157]

Hitting a target two miles away using an unstabilized deck gun firing off the rolling deck of a moving submarine... they’d be lucky to hit the lighthouse

[@Phoenix-xn3sf]

'Lighthouse' is even overstating it, it's more of a glorified lamppost by the looks of it. No shame in not hitting that from that distance indeed.

[@tomk3732]

No one is talking about direct hit - within 20m of either side. 20m front / back. That is a target bigger then a destroyer.

[@dominichines9996]

They'd be lucky to hit the shore

[@artiew8718]

that's something you learn beforehand and then don't even attempt. lol.

[@rawdawg15]

@@Phoenix-xn3sf then why not get closer. The canadians weren't gonna shoot back, and the sub can run shallow.

[@thomasarcturus8947]

What a teaser! Now, I really want Part 3. Nice series, Mark.

[@steefant]

and i wonder where it is when there are so many other videos released in the meantime...?

[@bethhentges]

Mark, Has Part 3 been released yet?

[@djzrobzombie2813]

@@bethhentges NO

[@djzrobzombie2813]

@@LP-mo3sh waiting for part 4 nuke japan !

[@djzrobzombie2813]

@@LP-mo3sh well that's true and I'm sure development of an long range bomber or intercontinental missiles would also not be a problem for japan

[@ukrainiipyat]

Regarding old forts and old guns and 75 year old commanders - "The Battle of Drobak Sound" at the opening of the German invasion of Norway is testament to what grit and determination is : they managed to sink the new German naval cruiser "Blücher" which caused a delay in the invasion that allowed King Haakon VII and the Norwegian gold reserves to slip out of the country. The fort's commander, Birger Eriksen, was close to retiring when he was called to step up in the service of his homeland - and he and his soldiers did so heroically.

[@dougerrohmer]

That is one hell of a story. Given that the Norwegians were neutral at that point and the commander of the fort wasn't sure whether he was gonna be lionised or hung for murder by his own government.

[@SynchroScore]

@@dougerrohmer Even better is that the Norwegians sank a German ship with weapons produced by German companies.

[@Hidensee]

If you are such bad deck gun crew. The enemy think that was friendly fire accident.

[@Jack-iv1ed]

Vítězslav Zpěvak it was at night as he said

[@brainwashingdetergent4128]

Not a bad crew. You simply cannot get much AA on a sub, think about it.

[@tomk3732]

@@Jack-iv1ed Nah at around 10PM is still full day time. Maybe if it was 11PM.

[@sarjim4381]

A stroke of luck it could be, but postwar interviews and Japanese naval records do indicate that I-26 was there at the time and did indeed do the shelling. The idea that a USN submarine was the one doing the shelling and that the entire crew had remained silent all these years is just laughable. Japanese submarines were well known for their poor performance in surface actions. They gun itself was noted for excessive dispersion, and the I-26 didn't carry a director, since the ones in use by the IJN were too heavy to mount on a submarine mast. Aiming was done using telescopic sights on the gun mount, put them too low for reliable long distance shelling. Japanese submarine tactics were to rely on their excellent torpedos, only using their deck gun on vessels judged too small to waste a torpedo on. Since these were generally merchant vessels that were either unarmed or poorly armed, Japanese submarines would come to nearly point blank range to sink the vessel. In at least 50% of the attacks, the shells either missed or hit non-vital parts of the target. The Japanese sub would then dive to escape an attack, assuming her shells did sink the merchantman. Japanese submarines were just not very capable when it came to attacking land targets several miles away, something their gun crews rarely practiced for. Japanese sub commanders felt these attacks put their boats at unnecessary risk for very little benefit, so they rarely pressed home an attack, preferring to mount a mostly symbolic shelling. Cdr Yokota, captain of I-26, was noted as being a particularly unaggressive skipper, as shown by the poor war record of 1-26 while under his command. By June 26, 1942, US and Canadian antisubmarine forces had been fully aroused. This was particularly true with the attack by I-26, since Cdr Yokota was aware of the invasion of the Aleutian Islands starting on June 3. The main goal of the attack was not the lighthouse, but the radio station, one of the most important on the Pacific coast for both its long range transmitting capabilities and its RDF (radio direction finding) broadcasts used by merchant ships for locating their positions. Japanese intelligence on the exact location of the radio station was only approximate at best, and the radio towers weren't lighted, making them hard to see in the fading light, especially with the reported rough seas and two mile visibility in haze reported that night. The lighthouse keeper put out the light immediately after the first shell was fired, making locating the radio station that much harder. The radioman on the sub monitored the Point Estevan station as it continued to send out SOS signals, and the sub continued to shell, hoping that one would hit the radio station. Instead, the Japanese gunners were using the elevation of the light as their aiming point based on information the radio station was being the lighthouse, so their shell went harmlessly long into the uninhabited area further inland. I-26, fearing an attack by aircraft, moved back out to sea on the surface, using her high top speed of 23 knots to put distance between her and the likely point of of attack by arriving aircraft. In fact, it took nearly 90 minutes for the first RCN (Royal Canadian Navy) Catalina patrol bomber to arrive over Point Estevan. Four other aircraft showed up in the next half hour, but the first Canadian subchaser took over four hours to arrive. By that time, I-26 was long gone. This was an acute embarrassment to the RCN, which had assured both its citizens and the USN that it was fully able to protect its coastline. The attack was reported as merely a bub firing a few shells and then submerging due to aircraft attack. This false report by the RCN has helped fuel the ridiculous conspiracy theories about an attack by a USN sub or even a Canadian cruiser. All the evidence points to the attack being exactly what it seemed - a Japanese sub shelling a relatively unprotected coastline. This is one of those continuing conspiracy theories second only to the sinking of the Australian cruiser _Sydney_ , but being supported by nearly zero evidence. Ironically, the attack by I-26 caused far more sinkings than her torpedoes and deck gun. All the Canadian lighthouses went dark and the RDF stations stopped transmitting after the attack. It's estimated that at least 15 merchantman were lost by running up on the many rocks and reefs along the Canadian Pacific coast with no lights or RDF stations to guide them.

[@MartinOmander]

Thank you for the excellent write-up!

[@markdavis2475]

Great info, thanks!

[@sarjim4381]

@@markdavis2475 You're welcome. I just hate this kind of nonsensical conspiracy theory when there's plenty of evidence to understand the most likely story.

[@Muckylittleme]

Yes a false flag attack on your own population or territory could never happen and has never happened in history. Also it is laughable that a military secret could be kept - we know everything about every military action in the world today. Sarcasm off

[@sarjim4381]

@@Muckylittleme Firstly, the claim was it was an attack on Canada by a US submarine, so it wasn't "our own population". What has happened at some point in the past has nothing to do with what happened to cause this attack. Nice attempt at a straw man though. Yes, it is laughable that the entire crew of a submarine could carry such a secret to the grave. Someone always talks, and that's how we know about attempts to keep military secrets in the past. If no one ever talked, how would we ever know? Your own argument defeats you.

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These are stories we never heard at the war college.

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Carlisle?

[@100Mmore]

There's a lot of stuff you won't be told at war college lol

[@haenselundgretel654]

A "war college"?? Is this true or just a joke? Are you Imperial Stormtroopers trained there?

[@ookalar665]

Haensel Undgretel it’s military school

[@dominichines9996]

Well of course. They aren't funny enough to share with people at a college

[@PNurmi]

I was born and raised in Astoria. OR and played many a time at Fort Steven's and its concrete emplacements. Thanks for the detailed story about the shelling of Fort Steven's. It collaborates the story from the Park service but with names. Another reason no shots were fired that I heard was by the time for the push to fire back, the sub was moving away and had not caused any damage. So what would firing back accomplished? I would note that about 40 miles to the south was the Tillamook Naval Air Ststion with several air ships, with one probably out on patrol. So better to direct that out to search and find the sub, which we know was not successful if it tried. I also don't recall there being any bombers or fighters stationed at the nearby Astoria airport that could have been called in either. Thanks again for a story that I can directly and personally relate to!

[@BOB-wx3fq]

Ya I use to run around the old uboat lookout bases south shore longisland entrance to NY harbour There was actually rusted flak and mounted 50s still in the fort up until the early 60s, disabled of course, but made a cool place to play army as a kid

[@surferdude44444]

Donald Palmrose.........During the war, Astoria airport was actually Astoria Naval Air Station. It was a primary training facility for cadet pilots to learn real time instrument training. Why? Because Astoria is pretty much foggy, overcast (low ceiling) and gloomy most of the time. An IFR (instrument flight rules) dream training area. Hard to teach instrument training to the Naval Aviators in sunny Pensacola, Florida.

[@glennwilliams6522]

surferdude44444 .....and we all know about Florida and the Bermuda Triangle. Not a good place for student pilots.

[@tuljan4419]

Donald Palmrose what would firing back accomplish? How about showing some balls to the enemy?

[@contestant2964]

U mean corroborates?

[@cgaccount3669]

As I Canadian I can say I've never heard of the conspiracy theory about the sub attacking the lighthouse. Canada was fully committed to the war against Japan and Germany... except in Quebec. French Canada was less enthusiastic and the reason for the conscription act. British Columbia is far from Quebec and an attack off Vancouver island would hardly cause outrage or concern in French Canada. Sure Japan might not understand this issue but the USA certainly would. Canada was already at war with Japan. And the USA would certainly have better things to do than a fake attack on Canada. Excellent video as always! Even conspiracy theories need to be debunked.

[@conveyor2]

This is the best observation here. Quebec could not care less about an attack on the coast of BC!

[@mdsf01]

Quebec towns were visited by German subs where in a couple of cases u-boat crews landed a spy and an automated weather station. In one case crew even bought supplies.

[@ronmailloux8655]

I agree with your comment .Conscription aside the zombies or draft dodgers mostly form Quebec would have been a mute point. The attack was more than likely from the Japanese sub . The west coast of Vancouver Island was secluded enough for Japan to try out gunnery . Politics get mixed up in the fog of war . Canadians before the Attack on Estevan pt. had been captured and treated poorly by the Japanese forces in Hong Kong Dec. 1941.

[@johntechwriter]

As a fellow Canuck I agree with every word of your post. The day after the British declared war on Germany, on Sept. 3, 1939, my Dad and all my uncles signed up for the Canadian armed forces. All participated in the European conflict, and miraculously all returned. Few people are aware, but the Canadian navy was in overall charge of escorting convoys to and from the U.K. during the early and most treacherous years of the Battle of the Atlantic.

[@thelondoner1526]

Hi! There is a question I have always wondered about ww2 and the US, but the same would apply to Canada so I hope you might be able to answer me as a Canadian: Canada has fought both the Japanese and the Germans, and it's a country that borders both the Pacific and Atlantic coast, so my question is about logistics: were Canadian soldiers closer to the Pacific coast more likely (or even automatically) shipped to fight Japan, and those closer to the Atlantic shipped to fight in Europe, or would Canada just don't mind the time and costs related to moving troops across the country and any Canadian soldier was as likely to fight in either fronts regardless of geographical proximity to either oceans?

[@roscoewhite3793]

WRT the accuracy (or lack thereof) of the Japanese gunners; submarines of the time didn't have anything like the fire control of most surface warships. Their deck guns were mainly used against surface ships, firing over open sights.

[@annoyed707]

How many shells were duds?

[@qtig9490]

Agree. It would be interesting to read what their orders were. I suspect it was NOT to expend all effort in order to take out a single lighthouse or else they would have gotten closer and taken more risk. It seems their order was to cause as much mayhem as possible to tie down as many enemy (US and Canadian) as possible and perhaps sow fear in the populace. Even at dusk if they werent able to see the fall of their shots well they could not have adjusted their range correctly - they just had the bearing from the lighthouse whose light presumably remained lit the entire time? (did they really not run it off once they started receiving fire?)

[@troglodyte01]

Hello from Vancouver Island. Since this was only seven months after Pearl Harbour it seems unlikely that the Americans would have been interested in devoting any time or resources to a conspiracy against Canada; they had bigger fish to fry at the time. Also, considering that Canada declared war on Germany almost immediately in 1939 while the United States dragged its feet for over two years, the suggestion that we needed a nudge from the Americans is a little insulting, especially since Canada was heavily involved in the disastrous Dieppe raid only two months later.

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Watch out for Bigfoot

[@graham2631]

@@JoshyP744 sasquatch, big foot is a monster truck. He's right the American's were late to the party we'd been fighting since 39-40

[@JoshyP744]

@@graham2631 US was under 0 obligation to bail put childish Europe (again) from a World war. Fix your own damn F ups! But take heart the USA daddy rebuilt Europe and has been forcing those naughty children to behave since 1945! We should withdraw and let Europe become part of Putins empire!

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It seems like America can do no right in the eyes of the rest of the world, they get to determine when the US must or cannot get involved. THe first World War was caused by European incompetence and pride that no one in the Western Hemisphere had any real obligation to get involved (except maybe Canada, who was still not an independent country and to an extent isn't one today, ALL ties must be severed to achieve that), but to this day the revisionists claim that the US was wrong for not casually killing its population like they did. As for WWII? Britain and France had the defacto responsibility for maintaining the peace in western Europe and they failed miserably, even though the invasion of Poland was terrible they really didn't care that much for the Poles by agreeing to go to war against whoever invaded them along as that someone was Germany, the USSR did the same thing and they shrugged.

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Thank you for covering this mostly forgotten aspect of the war. I grew up in the area, at our local high school that overlooks the Columbia river a lookout tower was constructed and students would take turns manning it throughout the day.

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Thank you for this piece of Canadian history

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I think that picture of Canadian Parliament is from when it burned down by accident in WW1.

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It should burn down now.

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I noticed that too.

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When you do your job so badly that you have to go to your grave swearing on all that is holy that you did intentionally target a civilian population.

[@eamonnprunty]

Hunter D ehhhhh I’m torn if it represents a legitimate military target. A military target that can’t be debated is something that lends all of its support, productivity, or output towards a war. This lighthouse was guiding all ships in the area, both military and civilian, as well as the undersea cables. Therefore its not wholly a military target nor a civilian target.

[@RCAvhstape]

@@eamonnprunty Nav aids used by the enemy's sea and air forces are absolutely legitimate military targets.

[@peterk2455]

@@eamonnprunty They most certainly are military targets, it was a common training exercise for the unit I was in to 'eliminate' lighthouses, light ships, ferries, oil platforms etc

[@algrayson8965]

@@peterk2455- “Shadowing” commercial non-military aircraft by military aircraft to evade detection of the military aircraft by a warship’s radar or other detection system is what? • If the military aircraft belongs to a nation whose rulers are hostile to the nation that the warship belongs to, and who make repeated belligerent threats, but no state of active war is ongoing? • The commercial non-military aircraft belongs to the national airline of the nation that the warplane belongs to • The commercial airliner’s responder is turned off When the warship’s commander perceives that an unidentifiable aircraft is approaching, that the same subterfuge has been used by the belligerent government several times before, and intel says that the unfriendly nation’s warplanes are known to mount a dangerous antiship missile, and the radar image is nearing the missiles’ range from the warship, who is the criminal when the warship sends an anti-aircraft missile to shoot the plane down? When an enemy’s war supplies production, storage or transport facilities are surrounded by war industry workers’ homes, what is a legitimate target? Kill a machine operator, truck driver, industry mechanic in his bed, along with his elderly parents, mother in law, wife, their five children and the war facility has to get someone else. What is a legitimate target? Your country’s bombs are intended for strictly military targets but as accurate bombing requires exceedingly risky low altitude bombing runs, your bombers fly over their targets at over 30,000’ to avoid interceptor planes and anti-aircraft shells, which makes it plain luck to hit a large factory or warehouse instead of residential houses and apartment buildings nearby. A hostile nation is developing nuclear weapons and missiles that can reach your country. Your government learns that two of the hostile nation’s top nuclear experts, the head of the nuclear weapons program and his deputy, are attending an international symposium in another country that is not involved in the saber rattling. Your government sends secret agents to kidnap the scientists, or if that fails, to kill them. Is this a legitimate act of national defense?

[@peterk2455]

@@algrayson8965 None of your replies apply to either the situation in the above video, or to my reply regarding lighthouses or aids to navigation. However, all are covered by the Rules of Engagement (ROE), which are the procedures under which forces determine wether the subject is a target to be engaged. In normal practice aircraft are identified, visually if necessary, their intentions are determined and if necessary ANY and ALL aircraft can be shot down IF it is determined that not doing so is a danger to other aircraft or to populated areas. That is something all pilots learn, in their 1st flying lesson, as I did. Your hyperbole regarding 'war production' is pointless, as the target is determined by the scale of hostilities. eg Targeting a plant producing chemical, or nuclear material such as Israel has done, may be pre-emptive, but also can be justified. That is an OPINION, not all will agree of course, but that is the right of all, to disagree. As for the 'machine operator, truck driver, industry mechanic in his bed, along with his elderly parents, mother in law, wife, their five children' apart from being an incredible multi-talented worker this is a fiction, as when working in the facility they are targets. The collateral damage is why some countries do not place such facilities near civilian populations and why some regimes surround such with as many schools, hospitals and similar as possible. No bombs or other weapons are intended for military targets, they are made to their purpose, to destroy. Their use is determined by the people of the country that owns them. Either by placing leaders in positions of power to only use them when absolutely no other choice exists. Or by allowing despots to rule over them, in some cases because they value their own comfort over others, are driven by ideology or hatred. Accurate bombing does NOT require risky low altitude bombing, the days of 1,000 B-17's flying over Schweinfurt while trying to dodge flack, or stout Commonwealth pilots in Lancasters following pathfinders in the dark of night on their way to Berlin are long over. The more likely 'errors' are in not identifying targets correctly, while knowing that surface to air missiles (SAM) or air to air missiles (AAM) can reach them from sea level to 100k ft, since the 1960's. As for the whole nuclear scientists, secret agents and assassinations etc, may I suggest less 007 and more academic reading. Although admittedly the use of umbrellas tipped with very toxic subtances carried by suspicious tourists used on dissidents from a former Soviet regime; or a couple of gullible Asian women being hoodwinked into using a chemical infused hankerchief applied to the face of a certain North Asian dictators relative are part of history. As for my government sending anyone it is far more likely to send them a case of Jacobs Creek plonk or a carton of beer from one of the Australian breweries, with a note to relax and get over themselves, than secret agents. A good day to you

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Fantastic work sir, thank you! I hope this series leads to the Aleutian invasion where my grandfather was stationed. I never got to talk to him about it and I am curious to learn.

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I was eagerly awaiting Episode 2!very interesting Mark. Thank you

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One of the best historical videos that I always watch. Thanks for the informations and for the knowledge!

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Loved the video, great work and thank you Mark!

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Glad you enjoyed it!

[@fabulousprofound]

Born and raised in B.C. Canada and I never heard of this lighthouse attack until now 😭

[@cgaccount3669]

I heard about it in Alberta. Odd considering it's one of the few attacks against BC. The other being balloon bombs

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As a little kid, I actually met and shook Nobuo Fujita's hand on September 1962 in Brookings, Oregon. This was a very interesting time in Oregon's history and Fugita was a very interesting guy. I won't say anything more and spoil your Part 3 story Mark. Can't wait.

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Thank you Mark. Rich.

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I laughed when you said "one puny submarine" 😅

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“The road warrior”. The scene is on youtube. Definitely a classic.

[@HHSEAWAUSA]

Mark, I have lived in Western Washington all of my life and visited Fort Stvens several times. Growing up hearing of the incident which this submarine shelled the fort, I have never heard such detail as your video! Once again, an outstanding episode! Thank you so much!!

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Wooh. A new vid! Liked already!

[@andrewstout5400]

Dan Akaroid did a full length documentry on this called "1941"

[@johnpotter4750]

John Belushi, and he's dead!

[@stevelindstedt8858]

No....it was a total fictional narrative about the LA panic during the early WW2 coastal blackouts.....a commercial flop, directed by Steven Spielberg.

[@fatdaddyeddiejr]

When I started this video. I was telling myself, "please don't mispronounce my home state of Oregon. Please don't." And you correctly pronounced it. Thank you.

[@cowboygeologist7772]

We have the same thing here. Too many people want to say Nev-Odd-uh. Drives us crazy.

[@danielb7117]

Great video Dr. Felton. My Grandad spent some of the war guarding the Canadian West Coast, whilst he was in the Canadian Army. Cheers sir, keep the videos coming.

[@roberthardin1436]

I live a stones throw from Fort Stevens and local accounts and folklore about the attack are still commonplace. Such a great fort to explore. If you're ever at the north Oregon coast come check it out!

[@PNurmi]

@Phil McCrevice There is a state campground there if you are so inclined but fills up fast in the summer. Seaside is at the southern end of that stretch of beach and has a number of hotels.

[@iharten]

The conspiracy theory is nonsense. If American gunners had been trying to avoid that lighthouse then it would have been pounded to oblivion.

[@neilturner6749]

Haha British open fire : Germans duck Germans return fire: Brits duck Americans arrive to “save the Brits” : everybody ducks

[@southpenn7973]

@@neilturner6749 did save your ass though

[@whoareyou1034]

@ThKa 1 and only Looney LOECSTA the allies won the war. The Soviets just had more casualties.

[@vaclavjebavy5118]

@@whoareyou1034 Both won the war. Both the Allies and Soviets would be hard-pressed to win the war alone.

[@whoareyou1034]

@@vaclavjebavy5118 when I said Allies, I also meant to include Soviets. Idk why people exclude the USSR from the Allies.

[@PolarisSGL]

Mark thank you for making my quartine more bearable

[@djquinn11]

Mark’s videos are so well done, excellent work, thank you!

[@d4ze266]

Hey Mark, I was wondering if you could do a vid on "Rommel's Mammoth" a command car he used in Africa. Would be amazing to see cause it fits your content. And also, I love your vids and the amazing history they bring :)

[@fuferito]

Just read about Rommel's _mammoth_ in von Luck's wartime memoir, _Panzer Commander._ It was a captured British command vehicle, in North Africa.

[@stupoc6715]

Rommel had a SDKFZ 250 3 With "GREIF" or "strike" written on the side. I believe that was his personal command unit.I have the modle.

[@oncydium]

It's in his February 2020 video "Rommel's British Panzers".

[@logicalthoughts8629]

Sir stay safe, Long long awaited request battle of Kohima, I am so curious since I visited that war memorial

[@theblackprince1346]

Kohima is a great choice of video but don't forget Imphal.

[@logicalthoughts8629]

@@theblackprince1346 yes sir Kohima and Imphal are in same theater

[@mrhamburger6936]

Excellent video well put together 👍 I learned some more of that I didn't know before

[@raedwulf61]

Excellent video. I had no idea about these events.

[@MoonBurn13]

American involvement with the Vancouver attack sounds HIGHLY unlikely: in addition to the counter evidence offered in the vid, I’d think there’d be too much of a risk of poor communication resulting in Canadian warships showing up and firing on ANY submarine, asking questions later. In addition to the sheer ethical breach in such a maneuver. Speaking of which: How many shells of those fired connected with land?

[@MoonBurn13]

PS The CO of Ft Stevens’ deciding not to return fire doesn’t strike me as at all “ignominious”, but as, on the contrary, simple military wisdom. Letting the enemy know your location, as well as, after a few shots, allowing him to know your guns’ lack of range, strikes me as suicidal, and not even with honor.

[@cgaccount3669]

Plus the USA would not try to get Canada involved in the war anyway. It already was. It was fighting Germany for years already. The only issue was getting french Canada more involved and they are thousands of miles from bc. And would hardly care if an English province was attacked. They didn't even care to help France

[@annoyed707]

@@cgaccount3669 Google Leo Major, badass war hero from Quebec in a Quebec-based regiment, and his adventures in the liberation of Normandy, France, among other things.

[@neilturner6749]

annoyed707 duh well that’s one guy! The problem with French Canadians in general not wanting to get in the war was bad enough to be of publicly discussed major concern to the Canadian govt, so I’m not sure why you need to question the previous comments accuracy...

[@matthewmunro8676]

I live on Vancouver Island and I didn't know this

[@SocialistDistancing]

The liberals are trying to bury the truth. That's why you don't know about it.

[@tommypetraglia4688]

@@SocialistDistancing Hurr durr liberal hater... Op don't know about this cuz of decades of underfunded education. It's the elders' obligation and duty to pass on the knowledge to the yung-ins

[@SocialistDistancing]

@@tommypetraglia4688 LMAO. Ya that's it.. you do realize that they have their own university, that they don't have to pay to go to? Under funded my ass. All they get is money and it changes nothing. As Abraham Simpson said, money doesn't change people. It just helps them become who they really are.

[@cgaccount3669]

I live in Alberta and heard about it. But in terms of overall war news it was pretty minor. But considering it's an attack against mainland Canada it should be known to Canadians.

[@davidmarshall718]

I lived in the tourist town of Tofino, Canada last year about 50 km / 30 miles south of Estevan Point. This story is quite well known, and there was a patrol plane airfield in Tofino during the war, B-24 patrol planes sometimes landed on the nearby 30 km/20 mile long beach. There are are also some abandoned coast artillery forts on the Canadian Coast, and some American ones at the entrance to Puget Sound; one, Fort Casey, has 2 authentic 10 inch "disappearing" guns recovered in 1968 from the long decommissioned Fort Wint near the U.S. Navy Subic Bay Base in the Phillippines, complete with some Japanese bullet marks from 1941-42. SEE GOOGLE IMAGES: Fort Casey State Park (for pictures of the fort and guns, which incidentally was built very similar in design to both Fort Stevens and the famous U.S. Army Fort Corregidor in the Phillippines.)

[@birkeduncan8990]

I knew a man named William C. Lawrence III who was in Astoria during that bombardment. He was 9 years old. The next morning, he was angry that his parents had let him sleep through the incident.

[@eisenhertz]

Great stuff,as always.thanks a lot!

[@MarkFeltonProductions]

Thanks again!

[@synthystation]

Sail all the way across the Pacific and knock down six pine trees. Banzai!!!!

[@cgaccount3669]

Especially since the locals likely appreciated the free firewood

[@JohnJohansen2]

My brains automatically hit the like button as soon it recognize that intro music. Not even a single time that was undeserved. Never!

[@MikeB071]

This is a great mini-series! Can't wait for part 3!

[@nsjx]

Thank you! looking fwd to the 3rd chapter

[@tommypetraglia4688]

"... As the first Japanese shells began exploding around Ft Stevens all hell broke loose. The night air already rent by the whistles and loud bangs of the incoming Japanese shells, was further disturbed by the mournful wail of the sirens as troops rushed to their positions and prepared to return fire. ..." History in prose. I'm lovin it They say a picture says a thousand words. But a handful of words paints 1,000 scenes

[@at6686]

I’m so early Kim Jong Un is still alive.

[@shanejaylamoste8852]

Or dead

[@garrettallen7427]

lamoste eacer Shrödinger’s dictator

[@tommypetraglia4688]

Last time I was this early Gore had the lead in Florida

[@spaceskipster4412]

He's in a "Cheese Coma" according to the Swiss Embassy. 🧀 🇨🇭 😂

[@HiDesert004]

Last time I was this early Biden didn’t have dementia.

[@57629589]

I've been to Fort Stevens many times but up until now had never heard the details of the attack, thanks!!

[@zjoaquin]

Omg I LOVE ♥️ THIS CHANNEL! You make my day Mark.

[@stormykeep9213]

Japanese sailor: "Sir! We've captured some Canadian rations, Sir!" Sub Commander: "Finally! I've been wanting to try some of that prime, Canadian bacon..." Japanese sailor: "Sir! It's not real bacon, Sir!" Sub Commander: :"What!!?? Not real bacon!!!...Grrrrr...AARRRGGGHHH!!...SHELL THE LIGHTHOUSE!"

[@CaptainGyro]

LOL!

[@markfutchll8141]

Don't hit it just scare them a little bit

[@phillylove7290]

"Though 20-30 shots where fired, at the rather tall and predominant building, none hit." Historian shade is brutal

[@steviesteve5198]

This series has been very interesting, to spite being a bit of a WWII buff, I have to say, I had never heard of any of this. THANKS and KEEP IT UP!

[@eyesofstatic9641]

I am really enjoying these episodic style videos!

[@ColinH1973]

Mark that is so naughty!! Now you're forcing your devoted following to wait for episode 3. Not fair!!😁

[@cgaccount3669]

In one video he tells us to buy his book to find out what happened. So this is much kinder

[@ryanvictoria6206]

All good things come to those who wait😊

[@ColinH1973]

@@cgaccount3669 True!👍

[@ColinH1973]

@@ryanvictoria6206 True! 👍

[@stonefree1911]

still waiting......

[@MrDK0010]

Was watching Episode 1 yesterday and wondered where Episode 2 was.

[@wetwriterrr]

When I get bored I turn to Mark who seems to the inside track to little known WW2 events. So, thank you Mark for another refreshing presentation.

[@ckom0007]

Awesome history content! Thank-you!

[@tonychristney2728]

Great video Mark. During the war my paternal grandfather was a fisherman and member of the Canadian Coast Guard in the area (based out of Bamfield just about 70 nm south). His story was always that the shelling was staged as well. His information was from fellow fishermen from the Ahousat and Hesquiat who witnessed the attack. So the people saying that this conspiracy is some form of liberal revisionism are missing the fact that the basis of the conspiracy theory came from contemporary accounts of witnesses. However, the claims from the Japanese captain are pretty compelling. I'll point this video out to my father and see what he has to say. He spent over 30 years in the Coast Guard as well and probably has more information about the event. Was the picture of the shell in the video the actual one? If so, it looks remarkably well preserved given the incredibly wet and exposed environment it would have been in for 30 years. Worth noting there was an RCAF anti-submarine squadron stationed just 30 miles away that did not respond to the attack at all. A minor correction - the trans-pacific cable system was unrelated to the lighthouses - either terminating in Bamfield or Port Alberni in later years. So nothing to do with the attack AFAIK.

[@oldesertguy9616]

From my experience (30 years as a police officer) people will tell a story as "maybe" then it becomes certain, and other people will start verifying it, and pretty soon there were several witnesses to something that didn't happen the way they say it did. Anecdotal evidence is somewhat suspect, although often that is all you have to go on. I don't know how people would know the difference between a Japanese and American submarine from that distance in fading light. In order for the conspiracy to have happened, the entire crew of the boat would have to be in on it, with nobody saying anything ever, as well as any potential responding units in the area. Just my two cents.

[@sinister6116]

Great shot & full support :o)

[@sinister6116]

T o r a T o r a T o r a , was a Japanese war code :o)

[@redstar1408]

Very well done, well narrated and researched!

[@61Slughi]

A good book about Japanese attacks on the US West coast is called "Retaliation: Japanese Attacks and Allied Countermeasures on the Pacific Coast in WW2" by Bert Webber. The book was published in 1975-ish. I used the book as a kid to get my parents to go visit the places where this stuff happened. One of the shells that was fired in the Fort Stevens raid hit 3 miles south of the fort. There is a granite marker where the crater was that you can visit. You can see it on Google street view. It's located on DeLaura Beach Rd about a block south of Ridge Rd in Hammond, OR

[@61Slughi]

Sorry, it's one block west of Ridge Rd and not south.

[@MrRugbylane]

Estaban is Spanish for Stephen. So its nice to have Cape Estaban Lighthouse and Fort Stephens in the same episode.

[@hanggman]

It is EstEban. Whit E.

[@localbod]

And it was called Fort Stevens.

[@kirbyculp3449]

Fort Pedro does not have that ring to it.

[@conveyor2]

2:49 "Pacific Northwest" is an American term! In Canada it's just west coast.

[@nubwagon3758]

Neat

[@CamQTR]

Hi Mr. Felton. When I was in elementary school in Richmond, California, in the early 1960s, it was "common knowledge" that a Japanese sub had entered San Francisco Bay and fired a torpedo at a tanker docked near the Richmond oil refinery. The torpedo missed the ship and damaged the dock. I remember at least one of teacher telling us in class, that she remembered this event. I'm waiting for your video "Japanese Invasion of America, Part 3". I wonder if there is any truth to this story. I hadn't thought about it for decades until just now when I watched part 1 and part 2. Also, my mother lived in Vancouver, BC, during the war, I remember her telling us that the Japanese had shot at a lighthouse but missed. Thanks for your great history lessons!

[@martinsamec9253]

You are the goat when it comes to war videos

[@johnnieireland2057]

Wow! You really kept your promise when you said you’ll be doing a video on the Japanese invasion of Canada! 🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@Casual_Killroy]

I've been to fort Stevens many times even had my b-day there once, its really cool! They do ww2 and civil war reenactments there sometimes.

[@terrystephens1102]

An excellent episode, thanks Mark.

[@surplusshepherd]

Great video as always! Can’t wait for part 3.

[@MarkFeltonProductions]

Coming soon!

[@koki4o]

@@MarkFeltonProductions Five months have passed. Where is part 3?

[@billdewahl7007]

The svelte Felt strikes once more.

[@spacewolfjr]

@@cap5856 slender and elegant, like a kitty cat

[@spacewolfjr]

This is great, thanks! One thing, and I don't mean to be overly politically correct or anything but in Canada we usually use the academic term "indigenous" rather than Indian (lots of people still use Indian but there is a general push to use indigenous). This is further complicated because a lot of the reservations use the name (Indian band #34, etc) and it's used in the States (Dept of Indian affairs, etc).

[@djs164]

First nations is what I've always known as the appropriate term but status cards still say Indian affairs I think.

[@traviseastlick5342]

This is a great one. I will watch it again if is cycles through the upcoming videos.

[@schorschy96]

i love your stuff - keep up the good work

[@MarkFeltonProductions]

Much appreciated!

[@LittleGoblinBastard]

speaking of the Japanese invasion, will you also cover the Aleutian Islands Campaign? the only time the Japanese ever occupied American soil, despite Alaska at the time was a territoy.

[@cyclonebuzz8172]

The Philippines was a us territory during ww2 also.

[@LittleGoblinBastard]

@@cyclonebuzz8172 True even still it had it's own local administration even though it didn't have that much authority

[@gerardmdelaney]

@@LittleGoblinBastard Guam has been American since the Spanish war.

[@bartfoster1311]

I can see how you could mistake if the gun was fore or aft of the conning tower, especially if it is sitting nearly still or possibly drifting backwards.

[@TofeldianSage]

Also possible that the officer stationed at Estivan Point didn't graduate at the top of his class.

[@jamesagnew929]

Thanks again Mark, great format. Your videos are interesting and informative, and put many ww2 documentary makers to shame! I grew up reading my dad's 'Purnells history of the world wars' magazines in the 80's and your clips remind me of the content in those great magazines. Sent 5 euro to support you - Cheers and keep up the great work !

[@MarkFeltonProductions]

Incredibly kind of you and very much appreciated!

[@abuskiZSRR]

i love your work Mark! it’s amazing! but please give us the 3rd part, and do more videos about the pacific theatre it’s really awesome, thanks again!

[@blackwaltz3135]

Where is part 3? I dont see it in suggestions

[@saor4340]

Did he never make part 3 , I can’t find it ?

[@willy19511]

EXCELLENT JOB MARK

[@markjosephbudgieridgard]

Wow Mark what a fantastic video really enjoyed that one ism running out of superlatives for your videos they are just amazing and so informative. Thank you so much Mark absolutely love watching your documentarys. 👍