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I-25 A 10-inch (254 mm) gun at Fort Stevens. The wreck of the Peter Iredale. Even though there were no injuries and very little damage, the Japanese attack on Fort Stevens along with the Aleutian Islands Campaign the same month helped create the 1942 full-scale West Coast invasion scare.
The Japanese attack caused no damage to the fort itself, only destroying the backstop of the post's baseball field. [5] The garrison of Fort Stevens during World War II included elements of two regiments, the 249th Coast Artillery (Oregon National Guard) and the 18th Coast Artillery of the Regular Army. [9] Fort Stevens was decommissioned in 1947.
I-25 (イ-25) was a B1 type (I-15-class) submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy that served in World War II, took part in the Attack on Pearl Harbor, and was the only Axis submarine to carry out aerial bombing on the continental United States in World War II, during the so-called Lookout Air Raids, and the shelling of Fort Stevens, both attacks occurring in the state of Oregon.
Record group: Record Group 392: Records of U.S. Army Coast Artillery Districts and Defenses, 1901 - 1950 (National Archives Identifier: 690)Series: General History of the Harbor Defenses of the Columbia, compiled ca. 1945 - ca. 1945, documenting the period ca. 1864 - ca. 1945 (National Archives Identifier: 299650)
The area was originally inhabited by Native Americans. It was settled by non-indigenous people in 1825. A post office named "Moulin Rouge" was established there in December 1857. Robert Inkster, a Scotsman born March 27, 1828, in Lerwick, Shetland, [5] operated a steam sawmill on present-day Inkster Road near Michigan Avenue in the early 1860s.
On 16 September 1940 the regiment was inducted into federal service at Salem, Oregon and moved to Camp Clatsop 23 September 1940. Moved to Fort Stevens, Oregon in HD Columbia 6 February 1941. [1] On 21 June 1942 the bombardment of Fort Stevens by Japanese submarine I-25 occurred with relatively minor damage. [5]
As a state trunkline highway, the roadway is maintained by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), and it includes approximately 18.5 miles (29.8 km) of freeway. [1] M-10 has six lanes from Detroit to Inkster Road in Farmington Hills, where it drops to four; a few segments have eight lanes for short distances between interchanges. [5]
(Organized Reserves redesignated 25 March 1948 as the Organized Reserve Corps; redesignated 9 July 1952 as the Army Reserve) Inactivated 30 March 1951 at Chicago, Illinois; Redesignated 24 June 1953 as the 785th Military Police Battalion; Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment activated 16 December 1991 at Inkster, Michigan