During World War 2 did the Japanese ever attack the U.S. mainland?

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Answer 1

The Japanese shelled Dutch Harbor, etc. and also took 3 Islands in the Aleutian Islands off northern Alaska. It was a diversion during the attack on midway Island. The Americans took one of the Islands (attu), and the Japanes eventually removed the garrisons on the other2 islands by heavy cruiser in several days of fog.
They shelled the refinery via a submarine. (which others have already described.
One Japanese pilot flew a folding up fighter aircraft off the I25 submarine and dropped a lage bomb on a forest in Wash or Ore. OIt was the rainy season so no major forest fire ensued. They then built and sent 5000 robot paper balloons with firebombs into the jet stream. It tool 5 days to travel to the East coast and 1000 got there successfully landed in the U.S. and Canada. These incendiary bombs also were dropped in the rainy season and few sustained forest fires resulted. One bomb, in 1944, killed a teacher and 4 or 5 students who were on an outing walking in the woods. Most of the bomb landings were kept secret in order to prevent public panic. The balloons landed all over the West. One got as far as Michigan. Some landed in Alaska. Only one balloon caused any industrial damage. The balloon landed on a power line and the bombs failed to go off. That po9wer line went to the Hanford nuclearisotope enrichment plant that was crucial to the mfg. of the 2'nd atomic bomb. (fat man that was dropped on Nagasaki). The plant production was disrupted for several hours
In 1942 two German submarines dropped off two sabotaqge teams and several tons of equipment. One group landed in New Jersey. The other landed in Northeast Florida. George Dash a former U.S. resident and leader contacted the F.B.I. and revealed the planned industrial sabotage operations. The team members fanned out through the Eastern U.S. All were picked up, tried for espionage, and hanged. No more sabotage teams were dropped off after that.
Doc. Dan.

Answer 2

Yes, a Japanese submarine shelled an oil refinery near Los Angeles.

Ellwood shelling
The United States mainland was first shelled by the Axis on February 23, 1942 when the Japanese submarine I-17 attacked the Ellwood oil production facilities at Goleta, near Santa Barbara, California. Although only a catwalk and pumphouse were damaged, I-17 captain Nishino Kozo radioed Tokyo that he had left Santa Barbara in flames. No casualties were reported and the total cost of the damage was estimated at approximately $500.

Answer 3

No, they bombed Hawaii, which was a U.S. territory but not a state at that time. With the planes they flew then, I believe they would have to had landed somewhere to get on to the U.S. for refueling. The jury is still out on whether President Franklin D. Roosevelt knew in advance of the attack. The U.S. had placed sanctions on Japanese goods and some think we baited them into a war.

Answer 4

Pearl Harbor replaced into the reason the united statespassed over the coverage of neutrality and joined WW2 on the Allies area. Japan became an extremely aggresive u . s . and the Leauge of countries (relatively what the UN is on the instant) warned that they should end the aggresion. Japan did no longer hear; their representative left the League of countries. even nonetheless usa replaced into no longer a component of the war yet, they nonetheless disapproved of Japan's drastic and aggresive strikes and consequently, they closed off all commerce to and from Japan. This replaced right into a substantial difficulty for Japan because of the fact they have been battling a war, and that they depended on different countries extraordinarily for organic materials because of the fact they have none themselves. the eastern became incredibly pissed off on the united statesdue to the fact they have been suffering with out all of the commerce. They consequently had some dumb concept that they might "punish" usa for it and suprise attack a significant defense force base, Pearl Harbor. This replaced into an exceedingly dumb circulate because of the fact up earlier, the president, FDR replaced into itching for a reason to circulate to war on the Allies area. Congress, in spite of the undeniable fact that, did no longer enable him to declare war because of the fact the united statesreplaced into no longer at as quickly as in touch and there replaced into no probability to them, (up until then) and that that they had a coverage of neutrality. The Japenese, with their attack on Pearl Harbor, gave us a reason to circulate to war. Immediatly after the attack, the united statesjoined the war and kicked Japanes butt alongside with something of the Axis powers. desire I helped =)

Answer 5

Yes they did, your answer from Jim was correct; but they also sent balloons into the air with explosives on them. One landed somewhere in the north west and killed a family of five. They were out on a picnic and the kids found the unexploded bomb and picked it up. It went off and they were killed, the only causalities of Japans attempt to bomb the US. A couple of other bombs landed harmlessly in the country side. Japan gave it up, the air currents were too unreliable to deliver the bombs properly.

Answer 6

The Japanese did not attack only because we were STRONG back then and we defeated them.
Hopefully we'll show the same strength TODAY and defeat the terrorists.

Answer 7

There was supposed to have been a submarine attack that was
kept under cover.

Answer 8

no, they attacked pearl harbor with two of their planned hits but pulled out of the third because our defense went up

Answer 9

Yes.

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http://experts.about.com/e/e/el/elsie_mitchell.htm

Good luck.

Answer 10

No.