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On June 21, 1942, a 5.5-inch shell exploded here, one of 17 fired at Columbia River harbor defence installations by the Japanese submarine I-25. It was the only hostile shelling of a military base on the U.S. mainland during World War II and the first since the War of 1812.
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Warrenton, Oregon · United States
