legaleagle_45
Silver Member
Okay, well at least I have some reason to believe you are sincerely misinformed and not simply trolling.
I am not misinformed, I am a history nerd
Here, submitted for your consideration..
That there were hysterical fears of invasion by some does not refute my point any more than the hysterical fears of a Martian invasion during the broadcast of the War of the Worlds would make those fears a real possibility. Shelling by submarines is NOT a full scale invasion of the West Coast. Balloon Bombs are not a full scale invasion of the West Coast. Panic is oft times irrational. I do not dispute that some... even many... irrational people or fearful people without a fuller appreciation of the facts might be afraid of an invasion.
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Within days of the attack on Hawaii, Japanese submarines were attacking merchant ships off California's coast reinforcing those fears. Wild rumors circulated of Japanese invasion fleets being seen in California water and of actual Japanese landings. (snip)
The German wolfpack attacks in the Gulf and along the Eastern Seaboard where significantly more effective and more numerous... yet no knowledgeable person believed the Germans capable of invading the US, even though the Atlantic is not nearly as wide as the Pacific and the Germans were a much more formidable foe... heck the Germans could not even pull of an invasion of England.
Reporting that there were wild fears and unsubstantiated rumors of invasion simply does not refute my contention that no knowledgeable person considered a full scale invasion of the West Coast possible.