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To: henry8th who wrote (890)4/1/1999 6:54:00 AM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 17770
 
Hey, lower 48 immunity don't compute. A few (2 or 3) German spies landed from a submarine on the east cost (Jersey beaches 1942?) and were court martialed and hanged, and a submarine launched Japanese plane bombed the northwest (Oregon?) in 1942. There were a few fires started by Japan launched balloons. Then there was the Black Tom explosion in 1917 (german sabotage in Jersey again). This is not even counting Canadian victory in the World Series.
Now in the wider sense, the Japanese invasion of the Aleutians and bombing of Dutch Harbor was an invasion of Federal territory. Not to mention the unpleasantness at Pearl Harbor, Wake, Midway and the Philippines. Of course, if you don't want to count territories and possessions.
I need not mention that these intrusions did not go unavenged 100 fold. Even Black Jack Pershing got a lot of healthy exercise chasing Pancho into Mexico, and the Marines got to visit Veracruz before world war I.
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