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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 ...
21 wrz 2019 · At 7:18 p.m. on February 24, just 24 hours after the Ellwood attack, a “yellow alert” was called after radar detectors picked up objects more than 100 miles off the coast moving rapidly toward Los Angeles.
17 gru 2000 · In fact, a few days after the region endured one of its most mysterious wartime traumas--the so-called “Battle of Los Angeles”--UFO enthusiasts were suggesting that extraterrestrial...
23 lut 2011 · For years, there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world, like the one in Los Angeles in 1942, but in Columbia Pictures' Battle: Los Angeles, what were once just...
23 lut 2017 · On February 25, 1942, an infamous false alarm saw American military units unleash a torrent of anti‑aircraft fire in the skies over Los Angeles.
On the evening of February 24, 1942, an anti-aircraft barrage of more than 1,440 rounds is launched at what is initially thought to be a Japanese aerial attack on the City of Angels. Five civilians die – three from traffic accidents spawned by the chaos and two from heart attacks.
23 lut 2017 · Following the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, war jitters swept the Southland. By February 1942, air-raid sirens, searchlights and anti-aircraft guns filled Los Angeles.