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Enemy Offshore!
Brendan Coyle
Melanie Arnis
其他書名
Japan's Secret War on North America's West Coast
出版
Heritage House Publishing Co
, 2013
主題
History / General
History / Asia / General
History / Canada / General
History / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)
History / Asia / Japan
History / Military / General
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Technology & Engineering / Military Science
ISBN
1927527538
9781927527535
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_WXeAAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
On June 20, 1942, the lighthouse at Estevan Point on Vancouver Island was shelled by the Japanese submarine I-26. It was the first enemy attack on Canadian soil since the War of 1812. But this was only one incident in the incredible and little-known Japanese campaign to terrorize North America's west coast and mount an invasion through the Aleutian Islands.
Enemy Offshore
is a dramatic, comprehensive narrative of the events that unfolded as Japan brought the Second World War to North American shores. Submarines--Japan's formidable I-boats--stalked the West Coast, attacking ships and shore stations. A Japanese aircraft-carrier force attacked Alaska twice, grabbing a footing in North America and launching a bloody conflict in the Aleutians. The Japanese bombed an Oregon forest in an eccentric plan to start mass fires and desperately launched thousands of bomb-laden balloons against Canada and the United States. Here are also the stories of ordinary citizens--fishermen, Natives and wilderness warriors who allied with the military in the extraordinary but largely unknown war on the West Coast.