Nubuo Fujita
| Nobuo Fujita | |
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Nobuo Fujita
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| Born | 1911 Empire of Japan |
| Died | 30 September 1997 (aged 85) Tsuchiura, Japan |
| Buried | Brookings, Oregon |
| Allegiance |
 Empire of Japan
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| Service/branch |
 Imperial Japanese Navy
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| Years of service | 1932–1945 |
| Rank | Warrant Flying Officer |
| Battles/wars | |
| Other work | Unofficial ambassador for Brookings, Oregon. |
Nobuo Fujita (藤田信雄) (1911 – 30 September 1997) was a Warrant Flying Officer of the Imperial Japanese Navy who flew a floatplane from the long-range submarine aircraft carrier I-25, and conducted the only wartime aircraft-dropped bombing on the contiguous United States of America, which became known as the Lookout Air Raid. Using incendiary bombs, his mission was to start massive forest fires in the Pacific Northwest near the city of Brookings, Oregon with the objective of drawing the U.S. military's resources away from the Pacific Theater. The strategy was also used in the Japanese fire balloon campaign.
Nobuo Fujita joined the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1932 and became a pilot in 1933. Fujita also had a younger brother who was killed in the war.
Fujita was on board I-25 during the attack on Pearl Harbor, where the I-25 and three other submarines patrolled a line 193 km (120 mi) north of Oahu. Fujita's plane, a Yokosuka E14Y "Glen" seaplane, did not function properly, and he was unable to participate in the reconnaissance mission planned before the attack.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, I-25 patrolled along the West Coast of the United States with eight other submarines. They attacked U.S. shipping before returning to their base in Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. They arrived there on January 11, 1942 to refuel and be refurbished.
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