Enemy offshore! : Japan's secret war on North America's West Coast

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Label

Enemy offshore! : Japan's secret war on North America's West Coast

Title remainder

Japan's secret war on North America's West Coast

Statement of responsibility

Brendan Coyle and Melanie Arnis

Creator

• Coyle, Brendan, 1957-

Contributor

• Arnis, Melanie

Author

• Coyle, Brendan, 1957-
• Arnis, Melanie

Subject

• Military operations, Aerial -- Japanese
• Military operations, Naval -- Japanese
• Military operations, Naval -- Submarine
• North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
• Northwest Coast of North America -- History
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Japanese
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations | Submarine
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Japanese
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Northwest Coast of North America
• 1939-1945
• HISTORY -- Europe -- Western
• History

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

On June 20, 1942, the lighthouse at Estevan Point on Vancouver Island was shelled by the Japanese submarine I-26. It was the first enemy attack on Canadian soil since the War of 1812. But this was only one incident in the incredible and little-known Japanese campaign to terrorize North America's west coast and mount an invasion through the Aleutian Islands. Enemy Offshore is a dramatic, comprehensive narrative of the events that unfolded as Japan brought the Second World War to North American shores. Submarines--Japan's formidable I-boats--stalked the West Coast, attacking ships and shore stations. A Japanese aircraft-carrier force attacked Alaska twice, grabbing a footing in North America and launching a bloody conflict in the Aleutians. The Japanese bombed an Oregon forest in an eccentric plan to start mass fires and desperately launched thousands of bomb-laden balloons against Canada and the United States. Here are also the stories of ordinary citizens--fishermen, Natives and wilderness warriors who allied with the military in the extraordinary but largely unknown war on the West Coast

Member of

• Amazing stories (Surrey, B.C.)

Cataloging source

NLC

Dewey number

940.54/28

Index

index present

LC call number

D767.2

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Amazing stories