A Lasting and Hororable Peace

On September 9, 1942, two 340lb incendiary bombs were dropped on the contiguous The United States by The Japanese Imperial Navy. It was 9 months after Pearl Harbor but 3 years before the US would retaliate with the first use of nuclear weapons in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki.

Our story investigates how a 'Glen' class E14Y float plane, launched from an I-25 submarine, managed to sneak past an alert and hyper-prepared American military. Countering this drama is a US Forest Service volunteer secondarily tasked with coastal surveillance near Brookings, Oregon.

The final backdrop is the 'under-the-gun-eleventh-hour' frantic efforts of the Manhattan Project to ready the atomic bombs that would eventually end WW II.

How the bombs were dropped as the American military tirelessly patrolled its West Coast and the events that took place in the run-up to the world's first use of weaponized nuclear energy, is only half the story.

The other half is what happened after. The human component, an American/Japanese renewal of respect, catharsis and healing, which would take place nearly 40 years after the world-changing bombings, and would, while the history books fail to detail, sow a lasting and honorable peace.

And we just might have a working title.