WWII Hidden Aircraft Plants

[Growler]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

In retrospect it seems like a great deal of effort, considering no land based Japanese plane had the range to strike Seattle and the IJN carriers were too busy elsewhere, but the panic after Pearl harbor on the West Coast at the time was real enough....

There was concern that the IJN was considering shelling the larger West Coast cities from submarine fire; if I'm not mistaken, there were lots of spurious reports of just that event happening.

One B25 guy I read indicated that a lot of the Mitchell crews were flying ASW patrols on the West Coast; from them were drawn the pilots and crews for the Doolittle raid.

It's gotta be cool to wander around that "town" these days, even if it is being demoed.