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In May 1942 concerned citizens living near the Naval Air Station on Sand Point Way NE reported that there was a field of bright yellow flowers blooming directly across the street from the air base.  The fields had been farmed by a Japanese family who had already been taken away by the evacuation order.  Neighbors feared that the yellow flowers had been left as a “signal” for Japanese warplanes to come and bomb the Naval Air Station.

Upon investigation it was found that the flowers were turnips, a root vegetable with edible greens.  Since the Japanese farmer had gone into detention, the turnips had not been harvested and had gone to seed.  Just to be safe, military authorities ordered that the field of flowers be mowed so that there would be no bright yellow marking of the location of the Navy base.