Axis Attacks on US Soil

Axis attacks and proposed attacks on the North American portion of the United States during WWII are often forgotten.  This episode explains all of these little-known attacks:

• Japan:
• Occupied parts of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska for about one year
• Planned bombings of the Western United States via armed seaplanes
  
• Sent 9000 bomb-filled balloons over to the United States to start forest fires/knock down power lines
• Germany:
• Created prototype long-distance bombers to bombard New York from Great Britain
• Created long-range intercontinental rockets to bombard the US East Coast
• Deployed saboteurs in New York City via German submarines in the Atlantic
• Almost attacked the Panama Canal after taking control of a Colombian airline
• Italy:
• Planned to send midget submarines and naval special forces into the Hudson River

For more information, read:
Military History Magazine (June 2000): Aerial Attack on Oregon
Military History Magazine (August 2002): Perspectives
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,77031,00.html
http://www.army.mil/cmh/books/wwii/guard-us/index.htm#contents 

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