Thank you for the details.
I knew there were attacks and that Japanese subs were off the west coast. Never knew any of the details or particularly about the fire bomb plan.
I used to live in the Crescent City area, on the extreme of California’s north coast. Just across the state line in Oregon is the town of Brookings. The forests behind Brookings were one of the fire bombing aircraft’s targets.
After the war- in the Sixties, IIRC, the Japanese pilot that did the deed was invited to Brookings and a big celebration was thrown by the city and it’s citizens in his honor; he was treated as a visiting celebrity.
I can imagine his puzzlement.
“Secret Japanese airstrips in the Pomona Alfalfa fields “!