The Battle of Los Angeles

[Weatherman2020]

February 24, 1942

81 years ago today the Battle of Los Angeles. The skies of Los Angeles lit up with search lights and anti-aircraft fire. To this day it is unknown if enemy aircraft were present, but the day before a Japanese submarine (some carried aircraft) had shelled a refinery in Santa Barbara.

 

[MaryL]

I think that was basicaly mass paranoia and jumping at shadows.

 

[ScorpioRising007]

February 24, 1942

81 years ago today the Battle of Los Angeles. The skies of Los Angeles lit up with search lights and anti-aircraft fire. To this day it is unknown if enemy aircraft were present, but the day before a Japanese submarine (some carried aircraft) had shelled a refinery in Santa Barbara.
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Interesting i have visited LA a couple times in my life. I always have had this dream of living homelessly in LA, what it would be like. Since I couldn't afford rent the standard of living there, other option would be to just live on the street for a while which for the LA experience might not be all that bad.

 

[Zebra]

February 24, 1942

81 years ago today the Battle of Los Angeles. The skies of Los Angeles lit up with search lights and anti-aircraft fire. To this day it is unknown if enemy aircraft were present, but the day before a Japanese submarine (some carried aircraft) had shelled a refinery in Santa Barbara.
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never heard of thst


must look it up

 

[Stryder50]

EXCERPT:
The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as the Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to a rumored attack on the continental United States by Imperial Japan and the subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which took place from late 24 February to early 25 February 1942, over Los Angeles, California.[1][2][3] The incident occurred less than three months after the U.S. entered World War II in response to the Imperial Japanese Navy's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, and one day after the bombardment of Ellwood near Santa Barbara on 23 February. Initially, the target of the aerial barrage was thought to be an attacking force from Japan, but speaking at a press conference shortly afterward, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox called the purported attack a "false alarm". Newspapers of the time published a number of reports and speculations of a cover-up to conceal an actual invasion by enemy airplanes.

When documenting the incident in 1949, the United States Coast Artillery Association identified a meteorological balloon sent aloft at 1:00 am as having "started all the shooting" and concluded that "once the firing started, imagination created all kinds of targets in the sky and everyone joined in".[4] In 1983, the U.S. Office of Air Force History attributed the event to a case of "war nerves" triggered by a lost weather balloon and exacerbated by stray flares and shell bursts from adjoining batteries. As an example of incompetence, the incident was derisively referred to as the "Battle of Los Angeles" or the "Great Los Angeles Air Raid".[5]
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Some have also speculated that UFO(s)/UAV(s) may have been involved.

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