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Exclusive: Two women accused Herman Cain of inappropriate behavior
By JONATHAN MARTIN & MAGGIE HABERMAN & ANNA PALMER & KENNETH P. VOGEL | 10/30/11 8:00 PM EDT
During Herman Cain's tenure as the head of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s, at least two female employees complained to colleagues and senior association officials about inappropriate behavior by Cain, ultimately leaving their jobs at the trade group, multiple sources confirm to POLITICO.
The women complained of sexually suggestive behavior by Cain that made them angry and uncomfortable, the sources said, and they signed agreements with the restaurant group that gave them financial payouts to leave the association. The agreements also included language that bars the women from talking about their departures.
In a series of comments over the past 10 days, Cain and his campaign repeatedly declined to respond directly about whether he ever faced allegations of sexual harassment at the restaurant association. They have also declined to address questions about specific reporting confirming that there were financial settlements in two cases in which women leveled complaints.
POLITICO has confirmed the identities of the two female restaurant association employees who complained about Cain but, for privacy concerns, is not publishing their names.
Cain spokesman J.D. Gordon told POLITICO the candidate indicated to campaign officials that he was "vaguely familiar" with the charges and that the restaurant association's general counsel had resolved the matter.
The latest statement came from Cain himself. In a tense sidewalk encounter Sunday morning outside the Washington bureau of CBS News where the Republican contender had just completed an interview on "Face the Nation" Cain evaded a series of questions about sexual harassment allegations.
Cain said he has "had thousands of people working for me" at different businesses over the years and could not comment "until I see some facts or some concrete evidence." His campaign staff was given the name of one woman who complained last week, and it was repeated to Cain on Sunday. He responded, "I am not going to comment on that."
He was then asked, "Have you ever been accused, sir, in your life of harassment by a woman?"
He breathed audibly, glared at the reporter and stayed silent for several seconds. After the question was repeated three times, he responded by asking the reporter, "Have you ever been accused of sexual harassment?"
Cain was president and CEO of the National Restaurant Association from late 1996 to mid-1999. POLITICO learned of the allegations against him, and over the course of several weeks, has put together accounts of what happened by talking to a lengthy roster of former board members, current and past staff and others familiar with the workings of the trade group at the time Cain was there.
In one case, POLITICO has seen documentation describing the allegations and showing that the restaurant association formally resolved the matter. Both women received separation packages that were in the five-figure range.
On the details of Cain's allegedly inappropriate behavior with the two women, POLITICO has a half-dozen sources shedding light on different aspects of the complaints.
The sources which include the recollections of close associates and other documentation describe episodes that left the women upset and offended. These incidents include conversations allegedly filled with innuendo or personal questions of a sexually suggestive nature, taking place at hotels during conferences, at other officially sanctioned restaurant association events and at the association's offices. There were also descriptions of physical gestures that were not overtly sexual but that made women who experienced or witnessed them uncomfortable and that they regarded as improper in a professional relationship.
Peter Kilgore, who was the association's general counsel in the 1990s, and remains in that position today, has declined to comment to POLITICO on whether any settlements existed, saying he cannot discuss personnel matters.
But one source closely familiar with Cain's tenure in Washington confirmed that the claims related to allegations of sexual harassment – behavior that disturbed members of the board who became aware of it, as well as the source, who otherwise liked Cain.
"I happen to know there were sealed settlements reached in the plural. I think that anybody who thinks this was a one-time, one-person transgression would be mistaken," this source said.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67194.html#ixzz1cKC1HDYz
The Tea Party Is Wrong on 'Occupy Wall Street'
by David Franke
The Tea Party began as a protest against the bailout of Wall Street.
Now the Tea Party is, in effect, coming to the defense of Wall Street.
Conservatives never learn.
Let me explain.
I'll begin with a trip into Washington, D.C. a few years back. I was accompanying one of the legendary leaders of the conservative movement, who had been invited to speak to a group of visiting Wellesley political science students. They were in town for a week of exposure to a potpourri of political viewpoints, and he thought this trip into D.C. would be a good opportunity for us to catch up on each other's lives. Perhaps he also didn't want to be burned at the stake alone. He knew I was a good bet because I never pass up an opportunity to be in the company of young women, even a bevy of future Hillary Clintons.
On the way in, he asked me a question he knew he would be asked at the meeting: "What do you think is the main mistake made by the conservative movement, or the main opportunity lost?" What an embarrassment of riches to choose from, and before I could settle on just one, he gave me the answer: Our failure to get involved in the civil rights revolution. In hindsight, he said, we should have helped black Americans obtain justice, and in the process seek to influence the movement in a constitutional direction.
I've thought about that conversation many times in the passing years, each time noting how conservatives continue to make the same mistake. "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned" is a lot easier to acknowledge than "Forgive me, Father, for I am sinning again, and I don't want to stop."
The latest example is this whole Occupy Wall Street brouhaha.
As I maintained in a previous article here, the Tea Party is losing impact because it has lost its focus. What began as a single-issue revolt centered on our fiscal crisis has morphed into the usual litany of conservative issues in an election cycle. Put another way, the Tea Party has been co-opted by the conservative movement, and since the conservatives have never been able to prevail over the Republican establishment, both Tea Partiers and conservatives are sinking together.
Now the Tea Party has found another way to slide into irrelevance, with its negative response to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Ordinary Americans sense that we have been screwed by Wall Street every bit as much as by Washington, D.C., but instead of fighting together we have fallen into the perennial Right vs. Left trap of letting the ruling establishment divide us. The conservatives say Washington caused our meltdown, the progressives say Wall Street caused our meltdown. Only the Ron Paul Revolution understands that they are one and the same, with the Federal Reserve representing and empowering both Washington and Wall Street against the people.
When the protests first began, conservatives and Tea Partiers should have descended on New York to seek to influence the movement in the right direction. From what I have read and seen, some members of the Ron Paul Revolution have been trying to do just that. But the Tea Partiers have reacted like, well, conservatives. And now the opportunity has probably been lost. Occupy Wall Street has been taken over by the liberal branch of the establishment – the labor unions – just as the Tea Party has been taken over by the conservative branch of the establishment – Washington insiders. The union bosses and conservative power-brokers saw their opportunity and took it.
I urge you to watch this short Occupy Wall Street video. Like the Ron Paul campaign's antiwar ad, it is one of the most powerful political statements I have seen since the advent of the YouTube revolution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RGRXCgMdz9A
When you watch this, it is clear why our warlords and overlords like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama fear the Occupy Wall Street crowd and are determined to crush it by co-opting it. What a shame that conservatives and Tea Partiers are on the side of Obama and Clinton in this fight. Once again, only the Ron Paul Revolution holds any hope for the future.
http://lewrockwell.com/franke/franke20.1.html
very good .
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What's there to say about Occupy Wall Street? The answer isn't so simple.
Some complain about taxpayer bailouts of businesses. Good for them. In a
true free market, failing firms would go out of business. They couldn't turn
to Washington for help.
But many protesters say they're against capitalism. Now things get
confusing. What do they mean? If by "capitalism" they mean crony capitalism
(let's call it crapitalism), a system in which favored business interests
are supported by government, I'm against that, too.
But if they mean the free market, then they are fools. When allowed to work,
the market has lifted more people out of the mud and misery of poverty than
any government, ever.
The protesters are also upset about income disparity. Here again we should
make distinctions. To the extent the country's income disparity is the
result of crony capitalism, it's bad.
Yet even if America had a true free market, there would be income disparity.
It's a byproduct of freedom. Some people are just more ambitious, more
energetic and more driven, and some have that ineffable knack of sensing
what consumers want. Think Steve Jobs.
But it shouldn't matter if the income gap between you and rich people grows.
What should matter is that your living standard improves.
Your living standard many not have improved lately. Over the past decade,
median income fell. But that's an aberration largely caused by the bursting
of the real estate bubble. Despite Wall Street protesters' complaints about
rich people gaining at the expense of the poor, the poorest fifth of
Americans are 20 percent wealthier than they were when I was in college, and
despite the recession, still richer than they were in 1993.
And income statistics don't tell the whole story. Thanks to the innovations
of entrepreneurs, today in America, even poor people have clean water, TV
sets, cars and flush toilets. Most live better than kings once lived -
better even than the middle class lived in 1970.
Some protesters say they hate the market process that makes that possible.
They call rich people "robber barons." That term was used by American
newspapers to smear tycoons like Cornelius Vanderbilt and John D.
Rockefeller. But Vanderbilt and Rockefeller were neither robbers nor barons.
They weren't barons because they weren't born rich. They weren't robbers
because they didn't steal. They got rich by serving customers well. As
Burton Folsom wrote in "The Myth of the Robber Barons," there were political
entrepreneurs, who made their fortunes through government privilege, and
market entrepreneurs, who pleased consumers.
Rockefeller and Vanderbilt were market entrepreneurs. Vanderbilt invented
ways to make travel cheaper. He used bigger ships and served food onboard.
People liked that, and the extra customers he attracted allowed him to lower
costs. He cut the New York-Hartford fare from $8 to $1. That helped people.
Rockefeller was called a monopolist, but he wasn't one. He had 150
competitors - including big companies like Texaco and Gulf. No one was ever
forced to buy his oil. Rockefeller got rich by finding cheaper ways to get
oil products to the market. His competitors vilified him because he "stole"
their customers by lowering prices. Ignorant reporters repeated their
complaints.
In truth, Rockefeller's price cuts made life better. Poor people used to go
to bed when it got dark, but thanks to Rockefeller, they could afford fuel
for lanterns and stay up and read at night. Rockefeller's "greed" may have
even saved the whales. When he lowered the price of kerosene, he eliminated
the need for whale oil, and the slaughter of whales suddenly stopped. Bet
your kids won't read "Rockefeller saved the whales" in environmental studies
class.
I have at least found some common ground with some Wall Street protest
supporters. Joe Sibilia, who runs the website CSRWire (Corporate Social
Responsibility), told me, "You can't have an environment where people are
betting on financial instruments with the expectation that the government is
going to bail them out."
So we agree that Wall Street bailouts are intolerable. Now we just have to
teach our progressive friends that truly free markets work for the benefit
of all.
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I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by
the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent
of the governed, a democracy in a republic, a sovereign Nation of many
sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon
those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which
American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.
I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its
Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it
against all enemies.
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"How horrible the prospect! On your own to pay for your own health care; on your own to pay for your own college expenses; on your own to pay for a lawsuit against a corporation that has harmed you unlawfully. How can anyone with an ounce of humanity in his body expect people to take such self-responsibility? The next thing you know, those callous, reactionary Republicans -- you know, the ones who ran up the size, scope, and power of government consistently under every Republican president since Chester Arthur -- will demand that people take care of their own children and aged parents! Where will it end?"
The Inversion of America's Dominant Ideology
By Robert Higgs | Sunday October 30, 2011 at 11:16 AM PDT
According to an ABC News report last week,
To gauge the extent to which the dominant ideology of the United States has changed -- indeed, turned upside downduring the past century or so, we need only recall one of Grover Cleveland's most characteristic declarations, made in his veto of the Texas Seed Bill, a trifling appropriation of $10,000 to help drought-striken farmers in 1887:
http://blog.independent.org/2011/10/30/the-inversion-of-americas-dominant-ideology/
The Inversion of America's Dominant Ideology
By Robert Higgs | Sunday October 30, 2011 at 11:16 AM PDT
According to an ABC News report last week,
- At a million-dollar San Francisco fundraiser today [October 26], President Obama warned his recession-battered supporters that if he loses the 2012 election it could herald a new, painful era of self-reliance in America.
- "The one thing that we absolutely know for sure is that if we don't work even harder than we did in 2008, then we're going to have a government that tells the American people, 'you are on your own,'" Obama told a crowd of 200 donors over lunch at the W Hotel.
- "If you get sick, you're on your own. If you can't afford college, you're on your own. If you don't like that some corporation is polluting your air or the air that your child breathes, then you're on your own," he said. "That's not the America I believe in. It's not the America you believe in."
- "The one thing that we absolutely know for sure is that if we don't work even harder than we did in 2008, then we're going to have a government that tells the American people, 'you are on your own,'" Obama told a crowd of 200 donors over lunch at the W Hotel.
To gauge the extent to which the dominant ideology of the United States has changed -- indeed, turned upside downduring the past century or so, we need only recall one of Grover Cleveland's most characteristic declarations, made in his veto of the Texas Seed Bill, a trifling appropriation of $10,000 to help drought-striken farmers in 1887:
- I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. A prevalent tendency to disregard the limited mission of this power and duty should, I think, be steadfastly resisted, to the end that the lesson should be constantly enforced that, though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.
- The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.
- The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow-citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.
- The verdict of our voters which condemned the injustice of maintaining protection for protection's sake enjoins upon the people's servants the duty of exposing and destroying the brood of kindred evils which are the unwholesome progeny of paternalism. This is the bane of republican institutions and the constant peril of our government by the people. It degrades to the purposes of wily craft the plan of rule our fathers established and bequeathed to us as an object of our love and veneration. It perverts the patriotic sentiments of our countrymen and tempts them to pitiful calculation of the sordid gain to be derived from their Government's maintenance. It undermines the self-reliance of our people and substitutes in its place dependence upon governmental favoritism. It stifles the spirit of true Americanism and stupefies every ennobling trait of American citizenship.
- The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people.
- The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people.
http://blog.independent.org/2011/10/30/the-inversion-of-americas-dominant-ideology/
News to me as well, thanks !!!!!!!!
On Oct 30, 9:58 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a "Forwarded" e-mail, with embedded pictures, so I am not sure how
> it will appear on the Group's message board. I did take the time to also
> attach the pictures, but the point being, is that I was totally unaware of
> the Japanese actually attacking the Continental United States until this:
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> *The Day Japan Bombed
> Oregon*<http://acmp.com/blog/the-day-japan-bombed-oregon.html>
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> By: Norm Goyer
>
> September 9, 1942, the I-25 class Japanese submarine was cruising in an
> easterly direction raising its periscope occasionally as it neared the
> United States Coastline. Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor less than a year
> ago and the Captain of the attack submarine knew that Americans were
> watching their coast line for ships and aircraft that might attack our
> country. Dawn was approaching; the first rays of the sun were flickering
> off the periscopes lens. Their mission; attack the west coast with
> incendiary bombs in hopes of starting a devastating forest fire. If this
> test run were successful, Japan had hopes of using their huge submarine
> fleet to attack the eastern end of the Panama Canal to slow down shipping
> from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Japanese Navy had a large number of
> I-400 submarines under construction. Each capable of carrying three
> aircraft. Pilot Chief Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita and his crewman Petty
> Officer Shoji Okuda were making last minute checks of their charts making
> sure they matched those of the submarine's navigator.****
>
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>
> *The only plane ever to drop a bomb on the United States during WWII was
> this submarine based Glen.*
>
> September 9, 1942: Nebraska forestry student Keith V. Johnson was on duty
> atop a forest fire lookout tower between Gold Beach and Brookings Oregon .
> Keith had memorized the silhouettes of Japanese long distance bombers and
> those of our own aircraft. He felt confident that he could spot and
> identify, friend or foe, almost immediately. It was cold on the coast this
> September morning , and quiet. The residents of the area were still in bed
> or preparing to head for work. Lumber was a large part of the industry in
> Brookings, just a few miles north of the California Oregon state lines.****
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> *The aircraft carried two incendiary 168 pound bombs and a crew of two*.
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> Aboard the submarine the Captain's voice boomed over the PA system, Prepare
> to surface, aircrew report to your stations, wait for the open hatch signal
> During training runs several subs were lost when hangar door were opened
> too soon and sea water rushed into the hangars and sank the boat with all
> hands lost. You could hear the change of sound as the bow of the I-25 broke
> from the depths, nosed over for its run on the surface. A loud bell
> signaled the All Clear. The crew assigned to the single engine Yokosuki
> E14Ys float equipped observation and light attack aircraft sprang into
> action. They rolled the plane out its hangar built next to the conning
> tower. The wings and tail were unfolded, and several 176 pound incendiary
> bombs were attached to the hard points under the wings. This was a small
> two passenger float plane with a nine cylinder 340 hp radial engine. It was
> full daylight when the Captain ordered the aircraft to be placed on the
> catapult. Warrant Officer Fujita started the engine, let it warm up,
> checked the magnetos and oil pressure. There was a slight breeze blowing
> and the seas were calm. A perfect day to attack the United States of
> America . When the gauges were in the green the pilot signaled and the
> catapult launched the aircraft. After a short climb to altitude the pilot
> turned on a heading for the Oregon coast.****
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> *
>
> *The Glen was launched via catapult from a I-25 class Japanese submarine.*
>
> Johnson was sweeping the horizon but could see nothing, he went back to his
> duties as a forestry agent which was searching for any signs of a forest
> fire. The morning moved on. Every few minutes he would scan low, medium and
> high but nothing caught his eye.
> The small Japanese float plane had climbed to several thousand feet of
> altitude for better visibility and to get above the coastal fog. The pilot
> had calculated land fall in a few minutes and right on schedule he could
> see the breakers flashing white as they hit the Oregon shores.
> Johnson was about to put his binoculars down when something flashed in the
> sun just above the fog bank. It was unusual because in the past all air
> traffic had been flying up and down the coast, not aiming into the coast.
> The pilot of the aircraft checked his course and alerted his observer to be
> on the lookout for a fire tower which was on the edge of the wooded area
> where they were supposed to drop their bombs. These airplanes carried very
> little fuel and all flights were in and out without any loitering. The
> plane reached the shore line and the pilot made a course correction 20
> degrees to the north. The huge trees were easy to spot and certainly easy
> to hit with the bombs. The fog was very wispy by this time.****
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> *
>
> *Warrant Officer Fujita is shown with his Yokosuka E14Y (Glen) float plane
> prior to his flight*.
>
> Johnson watched in awe as the small floatplane with a red meat ball on the
> wings flew overhead, the plane was not a bomber and there was no way that
> it could have flown across the Pacific, Johnson could not understand what
> was happening. He locked onto the plane and followed it as it headed inland.
> The pilot activated the release locks so that when he could pickled the
> bombs they would release. His instructions were simple, fly at 500 feet,
> drop the bombs into the trees and circle once to see if they had started
> any fires and then head back to the submarine.
> Johnson could see the two bombs under the wing of the plane and knew that
> they would be dropped. He grabbed his communications radio and called the
> Forest Fire Headquarters informing them of what he was watching unfold.
> The bombs tumbled from the small seaplane and impacted the forests, the
> pilot circled once and spotted fire around the impact point. He executed an
> 180 degree turn and headed back to the submarine. There was no air
> activity, the skies were clear. The small float plane lined up with the
> surfaced submarine and landed gently on the ocean, then taxied to the sub.
> A long boom swung out from the stern. His crewman caught the cable and
> hooked it into the pickup attached to the roll over cage between the
> cockpits. The plane was swung onto the deck, The plane's crew folded the
> wings and tail, pushed it into its hangar and secured the water tight
> doors. The I-25 submerged and headed back to Japan .
> This event, which caused no damage, marked the only time during World War
> II that an enemy plane had dropped bombs on the United States mainland.
> What the Japanese didn't count on was coastal fog, mist and heavy doses of
> rain made the forests so wet they simply would not catch fire.
>
> *This Memorial Plaque is located in Brookings , Oregon at the site of the
> 1942 bombing*****
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> Fifty years later the Japanese pilot, who survived the war, would return to
> Oregon to help dedicate a historical plaque at the exact spot where his two
> bombs had impacted. The elderly pilot then donated his ceremonial sword as
> a gesture of peace and closure of the bombing of Oregon in 1942.****
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At 10:50 AM 10/30/2011, you wrote:
Ron Paul Supporters heckling Herman Cain:
http://www.billoreilly.com/video?chartID=554&vid=-369530427130778506
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This is a "Forwarded" e-mail, with embedded pictures, so I am not sure how it will appear on the Group's message board. I did take the time to also attach the pictures, but the point being, is that I was totally unaware of the Japanese actually attacking the Continental United States until this:
I never learned about this in History Class...
The Day Japan Bombed Oregon
By: Norm Goyer
September 9, 1942, the I-25 class Japanese submarine was cruising in an easterly direction raising its periscope occasionally as it neared the United States Coastline. Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor less than a year ago and the Captain of the attack submarine knew that Americans were watching their coast line for ships and aircraft that might attack our country. Dawn was approaching; the first rays of the sun were flickering off the periscopes lens. Their mission; attack the west coast with incendiary bombs in hopes of starting a devastating forest fire. If this test run were successful, Japan had hopes of using their huge submarine fleet to attack the eastern end of the Panama Canal to slow down shipping from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Japanese Navy had a large number of I-400 submarines under construction. Each capable of carrying three aircraft. Pilot Chief Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita and his crewman Petty Officer Shoji Okuda were making last minute checks of their charts making sure they matched those of the submarine's navigator.
The only plane ever to drop a bomb on the United States during WWII was this submarine based Glen.
September 9, 1942: Nebraska forestry student Keith V. Johnson was on duty atop a forest fire lookout tower between Gold Beach and Brookings Oregon . Keith had memorized the silhouettes of Japanese long distance bombers and those of our own aircraft. He felt confident that he could spot and identify, friend or foe, almost immediately. It was cold on the coast this September morning , and quiet. The residents of the area were still in bed or preparing to head for work. Lumber was a large part of the industry in Brookings, just a few miles north of the California Oregon state lines.
The aircraft carried two incendiary 168 pound bombs and a crew of two.
Aboard the submarine the Captain's voice boomed over the PA system, Prepare to surface, aircrew report to your stations, wait for the open hatch signal During training runs several subs were lost when hangar door were opened too soon and sea water rushed into the hangars and sank the boat with all hands lost. You could hear the change of sound as the bow of the I-25 broke from the depths, nosed over for its run on the surface. A loud bell signaled the All Clear. The crew assigned to the single engine Yokosuki E14Ys float equipped observation and light attack aircraft sprang into action. They rolled the plane out its hangar built next to the conning tower. The wings and tail were unfolded, and several 176 pound incendiary bombs were attached to the hard points under the wings. This was a small two passenger float plane with a nine cylinder 340 hp radial engine. It was full daylight when the Captain ordered the aircraft to be placed on the catapult. Warrant Officer Fujita started the engine, let it warm up, checked the magnetos and oil pressure. There was a slight breeze blowing and the seas were calm. A perfect day to attack the United States of America . When the gauges were in the green the pilot signaled and the catapult launched the aircraft. After a short climb to altitude the pilot turned on a heading for the Oregon coast.
The Glen was launched via catapult from a I-25 class Japanese submarine.
Johnson was sweeping the horizon but could see nothing, he went back to his duties as a forestry agent which was searching for any signs of a forest fire. The morning moved on. Every few minutes he would scan low, medium and high but nothing caught his eye.
The small Japanese float plane had climbed to several thousand feet of altitude for better visibility and to get above the coastal fog. The pilot had calculated land fall in a few minutes and right on schedule he could see the breakers flashing white as they hit the Oregon shores.
Johnson was about to put his binoculars down when something flashed in the sun just above the fog bank. It was unusual because in the past all air traffic had been flying up and down the coast, not aiming into the coast.
The pilot of the aircraft checked his course and alerted his observer to be on the lookout for a fire tower which was on the edge of the wooded area where they were supposed to drop their bombs. These airplanes carried very little fuel and all flights were in and out without any loitering. The plane reached the shore line and the pilot made a course correction 20 degrees to the north. The huge trees were easy to spot and certainly easy to hit with the bombs. The fog was very wispy by this time.
Warrant Officer Fujita is shown with his Yokosuka E14Y (Glen) float plane prior to his flight.
Johnson watched in awe as the small floatplane with a red meat ball on the wings flew overhead, the plane was not a bomber and there was no way that it could have flown across the Pacific, Johnson could not understand what was happening. He locked onto the plane and followed it as it headed inland.
The pilot activated the release locks so that when he could pickled the bombs they would release. His instructions were simple, fly at 500 feet, drop the bombs into the trees and circle once to see if they had started any fires and then head back to the submarine.
Johnson could see the two bombs under the wing of the plane and knew that they would be dropped. He grabbed his communications radio and called the Forest Fire Headquarters informing them of what he was watching unfold.
The bombs tumbled from the small seaplane and impacted the forests, the pilot circled once and spotted fire around the impact point. He executed an 180 degree turn and headed back to the submarine. There was no air activity, the skies were clear. The small float plane lined up with the surfaced submarine and landed gently on the ocean, then taxied to the sub. A long boom swung out from the stern. His crewman caught the cable and hooked it into the pickup attached to the roll over cage between the cockpits. The plane was swung onto the deck, The plane's crew folded the wings and tail, pushed it into its hangar and secured the water tight doors. The I-25 submerged and headed back to Japan .
This event, which caused no damage, marked the only time during World War II that an enemy plane had dropped bombs on the United States mainland. What the Japanese didn't count on was coastal fog, mist and heavy doses of rain made the forests so wet they simply would not catch fire.
This Memorial Plaque is located in Brookings , Oregon at the site of the 1942 bombing
Fifty years later the Japanese pilot, who survived the war, would return to Oregon to help dedicate a historical plaque at the exact spot where his two bombs had impacted. The elderly pilot then donated his ceremonial sword as a gesture of peace and closure of the bombing of Oregon in 1942.
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