True, the Japanese Navy used a submarine-based seaplane to bomb the continental U.S.September 9, 1942, the I-25 B1 type Japanese submarine made it way to the United States' coastline. This submarine carried a seaplane behind watertight doors, which could be launched on a forward catapult. The I-25 submarine executed the first-ever bombing of the continental United States by an enemy aircraft. In what became known as the "Lookout Air Raids", the I-25 submarine launched a Yokosuka E14Y floatplane. The pilot of the Japanese floatplane, Nobuo Fujita, after flying to a wooded area near Brookings, Oregon, dropped a pair of incendiary bombs in the hope of starting a forest fire. Thanks to light winds and a quick response from fire patrols, the bombing failed to have its desired effect, as did a second bombing over Brookings later that month.

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