[Milsurplus] Silent Siege III

Hue Miller kargo_cult at msn.com
Mon Apr 20 12:20:17 EDT 2009


The book with the photo of the USCG beach
patrol and narrative mentioning model "S" 
Forest Service radio is "Silent Siege III". 
I saw from www.abebooks.com that you can
get a "Silent Siege II" there for about $15 
pre-owned. This book is about Japan's 
incindiery balloon assault on the forests
of the US. 
I googled the author's name, Bert Webber,
and found this: 
"...  During his time as a teacher, he became 
concerned over the lack of published works about
 more recent Northwest history. He was commissioned
 by Oregon State University Press to write the book,
 Retaliation, Japanese Attacks and Allied 
Countermeasures on the Pacific coast in World War
 11, which was later re-published as Silent Siege. 
Fascinated by Northwest history, Bert authored 86 
non-fiction books on the subject, 67 of which are 
still in print and available from his company, Pacific 
Northwest Books,
http://www.pnwbooks.com/nidx.html
which his family will continue to manage. He was a
frequent lecturer and radio show guest about the many 
aspects of his research and writings."
1921 - 2006. May he be in peace.
I found the link to the pnwbooks to reveal several 
fascinating titles about such topics as shipwrecks,
Aleutian campaign, relocation of Japanese nationals.
If the latter topic at all interests you, you might have
a look at the non-liberal viewpoint offered in some of
pnwbooks' offerings. Possibly potential ammo for some
debates or letters to the editor. 
James Barrows W7BCT (SK, may he be in peace) 
some years ago told me when he was working for
the FCC on the Oregon coast they heard some kind
of "wheedle wheedle" signal around 17 Mc/s he guessed,
that he thought was either a navigation signal for 
aircraft carriers or a tracking signal for balloons. I'd 
guess the latter as there was no HF navigation signal
sent from Japanese carriers or equiped on Japanese 
planes that i have become aware of, while i have seen
and read of a Japanese weather balloon transmitter,
which could have been similar to a transmitter used to
track the incindiery bomb balloons. -Hue Miller 


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