Bly, Oregon - Japanese Bombed Here

There was a group of people killed in Oregon in the mountains years after the World War II by some unexploded ordnance from a Japanese bombing. A minister's wife and five children were going to have a picnic in the area and one of the children touched the bomb and died instantly. Thus the only casualties on the North American continent. BTW, the remains of a B-52 Bomber lie in the hills along the coast. [Bill Darland, 01/17/2000]

[RA: This spot is easily confused with the Bombsite Trail in Brookings, where another Japanese balloon bomb landed. The explosion here actually happened during World War II -- May 1945 -- and killed the 13-year-old girl who was pulling the balloon from the tree, four other children, and a woman. Archie Mitchell, the only survivor, later became a missionary and went to Vietnam. He was abducted by the Viet Cong and was never heard from again.]