The Surprisingly Heartwarming Ending to That Time Japan Invaded the United States' Mainland

Discover the untold story of WWII's Lookout Air Raids-Japan’s daring bombing of U.S. soil-and the unexpected journey from fear and devastation to forgiveness and reconciliation
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[@mingfanzhang4600]

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[@mingfanzhang8927]

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[@Frustrationcentral]

For everyone curious to hear more about this story, I highly recommend renting the documentary “Samurai in the Oregon Sky”. They have more photos, footage and interviews with the Oregon locals and Nobuo Fujita’s family.

[@adrianbartley8173]

I wrote a college paper about this incident. One of the few warm hearted stories about WW2.

[@VFRSTREETFIGHTER]

As a Oregon native I've been to all the locations named in this video and they are very much kept alive in the memories of the people of Oregon, at least with my generation.

[@GabrielMcKnight]

Likewise, I lived in Brookings Oregon as a Kid and certainly saw His Katana with the Dedication plaque more than once in the Library

[@Amehana]

THANK YOU for covering this. This is one of the little known WW2 events that annoy me when people say the mainland was never attacked in any fashion.

[@darlenefraser3022]

Not to mention Canada and Britain in the war of 1812. Apparently people in the US aren’t taught actual history. 😢

[@andrewlegrand4416]

And Pancho villa’s campaign

[@Amehana]

@@darlenefraser3022 A good portion of the shameful stuff is covered up. I can remember a history book in the 5th grade in the 90's teaching an inaccurate account about the Battle of the Little Big Horn or Wounded Knee. I forget which now. I ended up having a discussion with the teacher about it before the test and shared with her what I'd learned from a historian that was working at one of those places I talked to while on a family trip. Later I remember having a debate with someone else about smallpox being intentionally spread to reservations here in the US, then later when I was in university stumbling on scans of a diary from a soldier that dis exactly that and was gloating. Currently there are other things that are intentionally not being taught in our schools.

[@darlenefraser3022]

@ Wow. I had no idea. Thank you so much for the detailed account. I hope more people see it!

[@kevinbarnard3502]

I usually say that the last time any land of any state in the United States was invaded - i.e. had boots on the ground - by a foreign military was the War of 1812. The last time any foreign military invaded some territory of the US was WWII.

[@sanywolfer]

A 400 year old samurai sword is the sickest gift i have seen yet

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Its on display in Brookings to this day.

[@mikes2622]

A submarine having it's own plane is pretty ingenious. With satellites it wouldn't be needed for recon but being able to launch an armed drone from off an enemy coast would be pretty effective.

[@stancil83]

The balls it took Vegeta to come and make peace... I'm just saying.

[@butcherbaker4258]

My grandfather what's in the Navy and got stationed in a very tiny town called Whittier Alaska during world war 2 and thought out in the i Aleutian Islands, after he got out of the military he returned to Alaska bought up property and bought a hotel bar and restaurant. My father followed suit enlisting in the Air Force after my father found out that he had a child on the way (me) quickly followed by my brother 11 months after my birth. We spent 5 years in Alabama and then another 10 years in Kentucky until we got stationed here in Alaska when I was going into my sophomore year of high school. I also joined the military after college and I spent the first 10 years in Kentucky and have been in Alaska ever since. I am 4 years away from retirement and oddly I probably owe my existence to world war II. I have two children but neither one of them have any interest in the military just like myself during my high school years. Three generations of my family have sacrificed so much but have been rewarded with even more. My grandfather and my father are both gone now but I firmly believe that there's a silver lining to almost anything. The biggest problem I have with most Young Americans is they've never stepped foot out of the continent of the United States or maybe not even their own state. People become so entitled and so ignorant to the outside world and the atrocities that happen communist countries primarily in Asia. If you ever think that you've had a bad life and you think someone owes you for it just take a look at people in North Korea Russia and China. This is the greatest nation on Earth, if you can't make it here you will never survive outside of our country.Be humble and thankful for all the people that lived before you that died for your freedom and your god-given rights in America Stationed at JBER Air Force Base Anchorage Alaska 🇺🇲

[@ModernVintage31]

Confusing. So are we all supposed to thank the people who fought and died for our rights and freedoms, or a god? I’m also a product of US military operations in the Far East so you have no claim on American-ness greater than my own; we’re equals but how about doing a little less finger shaking and moralizing of the “Younger Generation”? I actually agree with you that more education about world history is needed but you just sound like an ass that very few would want to listen to.

[@leeannmcdermott8313]

How have I been alive for 45 years and never heard anything about this? This is a huge part of American history I should have known. Thank you Simon!

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Ya our history teachers suck

[@thumpbur]

Very informative. Being from that area I had learned of the balloon bomb but had not heard of the lookout raid. Your pronunciation of those local names was very good.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Almost, Azalea was pretty rough, lol. He even almost got Siskiyou right.

[@caulkins69]

Don't forget "Tillamook." His pronunciation was really pretty bad, and not just with Oregon names. He didn't even pronounce Fenian correctly.

[@roguemaxify]

"I'm the prince of all pilots" - Vegeta, probably

[@IAmAlgolei]

I kept hearing "Vegeta" too but, yeah, his name of course was was actually Fujita. Nobuo Fujita. But I don't care about reality as long as I can imagine Vegeta dropping bombs on Mount Emily while yelling, "It's over 9000!" Edited to add: 21:40 🤣

[@Exponaut_R-01]

Interesting story, but indeed very heartwarming of him to literally go and apologize. War doesn’t make monsters of everyone.

[@chrisostling805]

I live in Oregon, grew up here. I knew before I even clicked what the heartwarming part was. Yes, the Pilot has visited and was warmly received by the locals. Also, Fort Stevens near the mouth of the Columbia River was shelled by a Japanese Submarine, they did not bother firing back because it would have only given their exact position away and none of the shells landed close enough to the battery under attack, Battery Russel to be exact. There is a wonderful Oregon State Park there now and you can tour Battery Russel, camp, cruise on the beach, yes Oregon Coastlines are designated Highways, and many sections are still open to vehicular traffic, we have the rainforests, the Columbia River, the city of Astoria is a really cool place to visit, they made the Goonies, Kindergarten Cop, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II, Short Circuit, and several other movies there. They have a great maritime museum with great exhibits, the Astoria Column with fantastic views of the area, and of course all the coastal towns with their shops and histories. Oregon is pretty laid back and it is no surprise at all that one of our communities embraced the pilot that attacked them years after the war and put the past to good use using it to make stronger international bonds. Much of the timber logged from that area was used to rebuild Japan after the war and we still sell the majority of our timber resources to Japan, personally I would rather sell them finished lumber that we could mill here but that is another story on how Japan actually financially won WWII when it comes to the US.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Ya the unfinshed log thing has killed a lot of small Oregon timber towns, personally I would like to see it illegal to export raw logs when it puts so many out of work.

[@alinepeed7167]

My brain just got a bit bigger. Thank you Simon.❤👍

[@bradbrandon2506]

I had to stop and laugh for a moment when I heard "god dragon special attack squad"😂😂😂 that has to be the most badass name for a military regiment I've ever heard... hilariously badass... legitimately almost thought it was fake for a moment like "did he really just say that"

[@MarkThomasPorter]

No "Boaty McBoatFace" in their fleet! ;-P

[@codahighland]

"Shinryuu SWAT Team" isn't nearly so absurd-sounding.

[@jamesleatherwood5125]

Awwweeee. I teared up at the end. That WAS INDEED heartwarming, sir! I had already forgotten that was supposed to be a thing! Lol ❤🥹🥹🥹

[@deanfirnatine7814]

It was SW Oregon not Central Oregon, I grew up here, I know where his ashes were scattered. He was a kind and honorable man.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

I already knew all of this , but it was fun to hear about it again.

[@takeohtyme]

Oh hey! Another reupload from the best host you ever had.

[@jerrik-415]

Oregon: The state founded by people who would walk across a continent barefoot, and then forgive their mortal enemy.

[@WayneMatthew-p2d]

Thank you for covering this. I live in Juneau Alaska and a history buff. I recall gunfire from a Japanese submarine in California. Am a mis-remembering such things? Thank you again.

[@oldesertguy9616]

They shelled a petroleum facility near Santa Barbara.

[@joelellis7035]

You're not. A submarine shelled a refinery just west of Santa Barbara.

[@WayneMatthew-p2d]

I thought so. Was this the same targeted area where a Japanese diplomat had stumbled (subsequently greeted with laughter) just prior to the war? I believe I’m getting this from a tutorial about the movie 1941. A movie that, IMO, doesn’t deserve the criticism.

[@oldesertguy9616]

@@WayneMatthew-p2d yup. That was the story.

[@jamesmanna1345]

Plot of the movie ‘1941’…

[@natecw4164]

That movie is like a fever dream it's so off the wall 😂

[@supernoodles91]

​@@natecw4164Haven't seen that for years!!

[@AirborneDan173rd]

Brookings also has pretty darn good clam chowder.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

Oh ya, farther up the coast you several Mo's and in New port the Starfish Grill

[@paulbrogger655]

FYI: The Aleutian Islands chain extends WESTward from Alaska.

[@JacobAAllen]

You should do a video about the Germans-Americans who went over to Germany to join the Nazis in 1939 and 38.

[@metalbrony2012]

There's a few videos about that. Not sure if I saw it here, or on a garbage channel like simple history, but it's documented

[@leosrydren]

I still appreciate you

[@Gilles-p9b]

Whom wrote this rather interesting script Simon?

[@eadweard.]

*Who

[@Gt7Fanatic0042]

Steven Spielberg”s 1941. Brilliant!

[@lodgelawyer]

Simon. Not "CHANT-a-lee Virginia.," but "Shan-TILL-ee Virginia." Unless pronounced by a Brit from Prague. Cheers.

[@Texaspokem11]

Wow such wholesome! 🤩

[@404unknownuser]

Lot of older hardware is worth a lot more on ebay / other auctions than the few bucks of gold you'll get for it.

[@kurotsuki7427]

Might have worked better if they weren't targeting rainforest. 😅

[@mrmr446]

Cruel of the US government not to offer reassurance as to the logistical impediments to a full invasion of the Pacific coast, leaving at least a portion of the public convinced it could happen was unnecessary to the war effort.

[@jc6800]

The thumbnail is 💖✨️

[@supernoodles91]

Who thought of calling the reconnaissance plance 'Glen'?😂😂

[@longtabsigo]

22:36 Archie has a sad ending in another war.

[@ericwarmath1091]

John Belushi made a classic film on the starring as Capt. "Wild Bill" Kelso.

[@maxwirt921]

“In the end, the Doolittle Raid inflicted little damage”. So, what you’re saying is that the Doolittle Raid did little? 😂

[@TheRunAndGun10]

Neat!

[@SteveSchaubel]

Are there any channels on KZbin that are not hosted by Simon lol

[@ferretyluv]

I’ve heard about this more from anime: the Battle of Los Angeles.

[@patrickcox1313]

My father was in the invasion of Attu.

[@timroberto3853]

The Foo Fighters

[@ram_diesel_power6039]

Besides the military the USA has the second amendment. We have more guns than most of the other countries combined. If the mainland is ever attacked the general population would be very hard to defeat.

[@brs690]

Oregon is a cool state as long as you don't go to a couple key cities.

[@caulkins69]

When did the south Oregon coast become "central Oregon"?

[@mrbushi1062]

There is also an incident where a Japanese Submarine took pot shots at a factory destroying it. No one also never talk about how thr Japanese did invade Alaska lol

[@jc6800]

Isn't this the "Battle Los Angeles" that some claim were aliens attacking California?

[@SafetySpooon]

Short "a" on Udvar-Hazy.

[@mingfanzhang4600]

😊

[@mingfanzhang8927]

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[@Jayjay-qe6um]

During tge final months of World War II, Japan had planned to use bubonic plague as a biological weapon against U.S. civilians in San Diego, California, during Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night. The plan was set to launch at night on September 22, 1945. However, it was shelved because Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945.

[@syntowin5504]

This video had to get screwed by the algorithm. 3 million+ subs and less than 800 views in the first hour or two? Kinda low, dont you think?

[@EffectPlaceboThe]

Half way through the video. Low effort. Not gold. Lead

[@noname2490]

24:30 this is how America was with Japan after WWII. Then the race hustler Obama went to Japan and apologized to Japan. We both where over it and had moved on

[@Zeldaschampion]

About 5 minutes into this video I lost track of exactly WTF was the point this video was trying to make. WTF?

[@Onora619]

First

[@GreyOne13]

You ain't First, Your Last.

[@camerondosing3275]

Last ive watched it twice already

[@JBrd79]

So, the Doolittle Raid did little??

[@TBR154]

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