Nobuo Fujita

Nobuo Fujita
Nobuo Fujita
Born	1911 Empire of Japan
Died	30 September 1997 (aged 85) Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, Japan
Buried	Brookings, Oregon
Allegiance	Empire of Japan
Service/branch	Imperial Japanese Navy
Years of service	1932–1945
Rank	Sub-Lieutenant
Battles/wars	World War II Pacific War Attack on Pearl Harbor Battle of the Aleutian Islands Attack on Fort Stevens Lookout Air Raid
Other work	Businessman Unofficial ambassador for Brookings, Oregon.

Nobuo Fujita (藤田 信雄, Fujita Nobuo) (1911 – 30 September 1997) was a Japanese naval aviator of the Imperial Japanese Navy who flew a floatplane from the long-range submarine aircraft carrier I-25 and conducted the Lookout Air Raids in southern Oregon on September 9, 1942, making him the only Axis pilot during World War II to aerial bomb the contiguous United States.^[1][2][3] 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 later used in the Japanese fire balloon campaign.

In 1962 Fujita was invited to Brookings where he gave his family's 400-year-old katana to the city in friendship, Fujita later sponsored a trip for Brookings high school students to visit Japan in 1985 and returned to the city again in 1990, 1992, and 1995. In 1997, a few days before his death, Fujita was made an honorary citizen of Brookings.