# How Come the US was Never Invaded? Other than the Wussy Terrorists **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 13, 2000, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-the-us-was-never-invaded-other-than-the-wussy-terrorists/41049 "2000-11-13T19:51:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-the-us-was-never-invaded-other-than-the-wussy-terrorists/41049/41 "2000-11-15T16:48:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by absoul \* > \*\*I can’t believe there are people out there that have never played Axis & Allies. > > _jaw drops to floor_ > > \*\* Yes, the Axis never invaded the US because it takes two turns to move your transports across the Atlantic. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-the-us-was-never-invaded-other-than-the-wussy-terrorists/41049/42 "2000-11-15T16:54:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stuyguy \* > On September 9, 1942 Nobuo Fujita became the only man to make an enemy bombing run over the continental US. (As noted in an earlier post, Japan dropped many incendiary bombs in the Northwest USA, but they were sent via unmanned balloons.) Fujita flew a single-engine float plane inland from a submarine off Cape Blanco, OR, dropped two incendiary bombs (which were soon extinguished) and returned to the sub. He repeated the feat three weeks later near Port Orford; that bomb, too, fizzled. > > Twenty years later he returned to Brookings, OR, near where he dropped his first bombs, as an honored guest; be brought his 400 year-old samurai sword – that he had brought with him on his bombing runs – as a token of peace and friendship. The sword can be seen at the Chetco Community Library in Brookings. Damn, **stuyguy** , I had just come here to post that! Brookings, Oregon happens to be my hometown. I’ve met Fujita; seemed like a nice guy. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2000, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-the-us-was-never-invaded-other-than-the-wussy-terrorists/41049/43 "2000-11-15T17:19:59Z")
Wildest Bill, you didn’t REALLY need an answer to this question, did you? I can understand wanting lots of your own threads on the boards, but this question seems juvenile and ridiculous if it was presented as a serious query. A map might have given you enough insight to decipher the general answer… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-the-us-was-never-invaded-other-than-the-wussy-terrorists/41049/44 "2000-11-16T01:42:45Z")
I believe he had an operational plan on paper. But a combination of financial problems & a desire to begin the disasterous Russian campaign canceled it. ---
**Author:** ![Chocobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Chocobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chocobo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2000, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-the-us-was-never-invaded-other-than-the-wussy-terrorists/41049/45 "2000-11-16T02:19:58Z")
Another point would be that no country would be able to hold us. The American people have always been a proud people, so we wouldn’t let some country come in and take us over. The general population right now has more guns than the military. If a country was somehow able to land troops and overthrow the govt., citizens would simply organize (or not) and just go ballistic against the invading troops. There’d be rebellion after rebellion after rebellion until the enemy got fed up with us, or was decimated completely. This has been true through-out much of history, so not only is it a matter of invasion, but also a matter of being able to hold us. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-come-the-us-was-never-invaded-other-than-the-wussy-terrorists/41049.md?page=2)