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At random: Interests in submarines extends to royalty and presidents. The King of England and the King and Queen of Spain are among those who have made submerged cruises in submarines. As a result of a trip in an early United States submarine, President "Teddy" Roosevelt ordered extra compensation for personnel serving in the "Silent Service." President Harry Truman made a 440 foot dive in a captured German submarine. The first President to cruise aboard a nuclear submarine was President Eisenhower who rode the USS SEAWOLF out of Newport, Rhode Island on September 26, 1957.

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crystal

Posted 2007-11-19 8:27 AM (#9300)

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Subject: Enemy Submarines Attacking Off California?

Dated December 21, 1941 in the Seattle Post Intelligencer - just two weeks after the Pearl Harbor Attack - fact or frenzy?

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crystal

Posted 2007-11-19 8:29 AM (#9301 - in reply to #9300)

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Subject: RE: Enemy Submarines Attacking Off California?

The small article under the LARGE headline!

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Gil

Posted 2007-11-19 1:31 PM (#9319 - in reply to #9300)

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Subject: RE: Enemy Submarines Attacking Off California?

Don't know about destroying shipping but a Japanese submarine did shell the coast of California in Goleta, a little town north of Santa Barbara. The shelling occurred where now is located Sandpiper Golf Course.

TSpoon

Posted 2007-11-19 5:15 PM (#9327 - in reply to #9300)

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Subject: RE: Enemy Submarines Attacking Off California?

I remember hearing about the japs releasing long range weather baloons with fire bombs and such attached to them. The idea was for them to drift over Oregon and Washington and cause havock. I think there was a civilian or two killed by one of these bombs they found in the woods. Can't remember if they were released from a sub or not.

A couple of years back there was a lot of noise about an unidentified sub having been attacked off the coast of Half Moon Bay (25 miles south of San Francisco) and supposedly sunk during WWII. I think some one claimed to have found it but nothing ever came of it.

Then in the 1960s and 1970s there were reports of unidentified subs lurking off the coast just south of San Francisco. Sort of a commie holystone operation perhaps.

T.Spoon, DBF

crystal

Posted 2007-11-19 5:25 PM (#9328 - in reply to #9300)

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Subject: RE: Enemy Submarines Attacking Off California?

After posting that picture I did some further checking...

(1) We did lose a freighter to two off the west coast to Japanese subs..

(2) The fire bomb ballons were a fact and were the cause of the only civilian casualties on U.S. soil during WWII - a picnicing family in Oregon ran across a downed ballon, moved it and boom! Lost the mother and 4 kids...

(3) Sub(s) did fire upon a oil farm in the Santa Barbara area and a couple of other west coast locations.

Dave S.

Posted 2007-11-20 8:15 AM (#9334 - in reply to #9300)

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Subject: RE: Enemy Submarines Attacking Off California?

I seem to recall a Japanese sub also shelled the forts around the mouth of the Columbia River and they launched floatplanes to drop bombs (see the link below).

http://www.historynet.com/magazines/aviation_history/3037331.html

Dave

TSpoon

Posted 2007-11-20 3:47 PM (#9340 - in reply to #9300)

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Subject: RE: Enemy Submarines Attacking Off California?

Great link Dave, thanks for posting it. A little bit of history I had not known about.

Thanks again,
T.Spoon, DBF

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