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DIED. NOBUO FUJITA, 85, the only Japanese pilot to drop a bomb on the U.S. mainland during World War II; in Tsuchiura. In 1942 Fujita embarked on a top-secret mission to create a huge conflagration in southern Oregon by firebombing its forests. Flying a tiny pontoon plane, he failed miserably, sparking only a minor brushfire...
...flags shouted shrilly hundreds and hundreds more banzais. Major General Yasumitsu, Commander of the Army Air Service, was there, accompanied by Admiral Komoku, Chief of the Naval Air Service, American Army attaches, Governor Tsugeta of Ibarki Province and a delegation of 20 prominent citizens from the nearby town of Tsuchiura, all draped in the Stars and Stripes and dressed in their best kimonas. The aviators were then escorted to a hangar in which were tables spread with chestnuts and dried fish. These are old warrior tokens?the chestnuts signifying triumph, the dried fish, good luck. At Tokyo...
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