Did UFOs and/or the Japanese Attack Los Angeles in 1942?

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Did UFOs and/or the Japanese Attack Los Angeles in 1942?
February 25, 2010
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What the hell is that movie 1941 about, anyway? — Tom B. from Silver Lake.

That movie is about cocaine, Tom. But there’s Historical Background, too. And, like all History, this tale involves World War II and Moon Men. Early on the morning of February 25, 1942, Los Angeles went nuts as something or some things prowled the skies.

From Santa Monica to Long Beach, silvery aircraft or blimps or cloud clumps were seen moving alone or in formation down the coast. Just one night earlier, a Japanese sub had appeared north of Santa Barbara and began shelling an oil rig. And just three months before that, the Pearl Harbor attack finally gave the United States a good enough excuse to join World War II.

The L.A. beach towns were well equipped with anti-aircraft guns, and some 1,400 shells were fired into the night sky at the invading fleet, or invading giant airship, or whatever it was. Nothing crashed from the sky, nothing but the U.S. shells that killed three Angelenos during that long weird night. Another three people died from pure fright.

The Army and Navy argued in the newspapers. Was it all just “war nerves,” or had a real attack been repelled, or did Terrorist Space Monsters fly over the L.A. Basin because they could? The front pages the next day were crazy, and half a century later, an angry L.A. rock band of angry people called Rage Against the Machine named its 1999 album after the same night of mayhem.

Everybody make sure to ask better questions next time!

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