Mount Emily
Template:About Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox mountain Mount Emily (Tolowa: en-may <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>) is a mountain in the Klamath Mountains of southwestern Oregon in the United States. It is located in southern Curry County in the extreme southwest corner of the state, near Brookings, approximately Template:Convert from the Pacific Ocean and Template:Convert from the California state line.
Wheeler Ridge Japanese Bombing SiteEdit
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Template:Infobox NRHP On September 9, 1942, the Japanese submarine I-25 surfaced near Cape Blanco, Oregon, and launched a Yokosuka E14Y "Glen" seaplane piloted by Nubuo Fujita, who dropped incendiary bombs on Mount Emily in an unsuccessful attempt to start a major forest fire.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This made Mount Emily the second place in the continental United States to be bombed by an enemy aircraft, with Dutch Harbor occurring three months earlier in Unalaska, Alaska. The site of the bombing was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as the Wheeler Ridge Japanese Bombing Site in July 2006.<ref name="nris"/>
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