May 5, 1945: Japanese Balloon Bomb Kills 6 in Oregon | WIRED
1945:: A Japanese balloon bomb kills six people in rural eastern Oregon. They are the only World War II U.S. combat casualties in the 48 states.
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Bly is just a few miles from my house. There’s a memorial there and you can see the shrapnel damage on the pine trees.
The map on a previous post is wrong in that it confuses Lakeview OR with Lakewood WA. Of course Lakeview is in the central part of Oregon near the southern border.