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Battle of Los Angeles 1942.
Page B of the Los Angeles Times, published February 26, 1942.
The Battle of Los Angeles (Los Angeles Air Raid) is the name given to an event that occurred on the night of February 24 to 25, 1942, above Los Angeles. Angeles, California, United States.
The DCA opened fire for several hours in response to the tracking of several unidentified flying objects in the Los Angeles skyline. (1.) Initially, the authorities think it is a Japanese aviation attack like Pearl Harbor a few months earlier. US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, however, later stated in a press conference that this was a "false alarm" . (2.)
The Japanese declare at the end of the war that they have never sent an air force over Los Angeles. (3.) The mystery surrounding the events raises many rumors. (3.) Some authors interpret these events much later as the manifestation of extra-terrestrial UFOs. (2.)
Events
On the evening of February 23, 1942, a marauding Japanese submarine fired several shells at the Ellwood oilfield, later known as the Ellwood bombing, and caused the coastguard to be alerted. the west coast of the United States. The information is being broadcast by news agencies and is creating concern in a population still under attack from Pearl Harbor.
On February 24, 1942, a warning from the US Navy's intelligence services announced the imminence of a Japanese attack on Los Angeles within ten hours. (3.) At that time, the United States lived in fear of a Japanese offensive on the west coast, following the Pearl Harbor attack of December 7, 1941.
At 7:18 pm, the alert is given following the observation of many lights in the skies of Los Angeles and is maintained until 22 h 23. At approximately 2:15, the DCA is on the war foot after that the radars spotted an unidentified flying object 190 km west of the city. At 2:21 am, a curfew is declared on the city.
At 2:43 am, planes were sighted by an artillery colonel. At 3:16 am, a flying object (balloon or airplane) seen over Santa Monica led to the decision to open fire. DCA uses its anti-aircraft guns for several hours. More than 1,400 shells are fired, but they do not hit a single plane. Numerous testimonies mention the presence of several flying objects, of different shapes and sizes, often confused with the shells and flares of the anti-aircraft defense. The city's searchlights are trying to spot the aircraft and sweep the skies over Los Angeles. From 4:14 am, the firing of the DCA becomes sporadic.
A curfew was lifted in the morning at 7:21 am Three civilians were killed by shrapnel and three others died of a heart attack due to stress.
Consequences and assumptions
A few hours after the bombing, US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told a news conference that it was a "false alarm" (2.) due to anxiety and stress related to the state of health. war. Soon, the event made the front page of the entire US press. (4.) This explanation seemed simplistic to many and the Long Beach Independent newspaper wrote5: "There is a mysterious reluctance on the part of the authorities to speak on this matter and it seems that censorship is at work. Although this matter is of prime importance, the commentators did not pay the expected attention. Many rumors and theories emerge as a result of the incident as to why the US DCA bombed the Los Angeles skies for over an hour. (3.)
Among them, Secretary Stimson put forward two theories to explain the origin of mysterious aircraft: those of enemy commercial aircraft operating from Mexico or California or planes equipped with lights, launched from Japanese submarines. (3.) The purpose of this attack would have been to provoke panic among the civilian population. (3.) Congressman Leland Ford put forward the idea that it could have been an army exercise or an attack to relocate the arms industries of Southern California. (3.)
A photo of the phenomenon was published in the Los Angeles Times on February 26, 1942. It shows what seems to be an object surrounded by the spotlight of the DCA. The bright spots surrounding the object could be reflections or shrapnel shots from the DCA or foo fighters. It turned out that the photo had been retouched before being published. (6.) There are three versions of this photo: one retouched and published on February 26, 1942, another retouched differently and still published by the Los Angeles Times on October 29, 1945, and the original photo6. On the latter, the presence of an object in the center of the projectors is less obvious than on the two retouched photos.
Competent war correspondents such as Ernest Pyle and Bill Henry witnessed the gunfire and wrote that they have never been able to distinguish a plane. Although many rumors (including the publication of photos) report the presence of a UFO, most theories look at the presence of balloons (meteorological balloons), regularly dropped over Los Angeles and which would have triggered the initial alarm. (3.)
Reporting Publications
In 1974, thanks to the US Freedom of Information Act, which required the US government to declassify records that did not concern national security, a confidential note from General George Marshall to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was made public. The general indicates there were unidentified planes not belonging to the American armed forces. He ventures the hypothesis of a civilian plane having deliberately attempted to spread panic, but does not explain how a slow civil plane could have escaped for an hour during the heavy fire of the American DCA, nor how he could have remained totally motionless. several minutes.
Japanese hypothesis
In February 1942, Japanese forces did not have an air base close enough to the United States to conduct air raids. Even the 5,000-km Japanese G3AM bomber could not have made a return trip, even though the Japanese had invaded Hawaii or the Midway Islands 4,000 km from Los Angeles.
Only airplanes on aircraft carriers or seaplanes aboard surface ships or submarines could have reached the United States coast provided that such vessel or vessels approach within 1,000 km of the coastline, given that the range of the Zeros, for example, which was 1,680 km.
In June 1942, the Japanese attack Midway to invade this island and the Hawaiian archipelago.
Two hundred ships participate in the attack including four giant aircraft carriers. It is hard to believe that the Japanese navy was able to send one or more aircraft carriers to less than 1,000 km from the US coast in February 1942. If they could, then they would have attempted a landing or an attack like on Darwin February 20, 1942 where participated the four major Japanese aircraft carriers Hiryū, Kaga, Sōryū and Akagi.
All Japanese aircraft carriers were located west of the Pacific on February 24, 1942. After the surrender of Japan, Japanese military authorities declared that there was no Japanese force in the area. Los Angeles, but aircraft submarines were used around Seattle.
Sociological and cultural impact
The Battle of Los Angeles is a recurring ufology theme. The event inspired the films World Invasion: Battle Los Angeles (2011) by Jonathan Liebesman, and Steven Spielberg's comedy 1941 (1979).
Notes and references
1. ↑ February 25, 1942: the battle of Los Angeles ... Americans make war on UFOs! [archive] - Blogger article on aquadesign.be
2. ↑ a b and c Historic UFOs Anti-Aircraft Blast Guns LA Mystery Invader [archive] - rense.com
3. ↑ a b c d e f g et h (en) The Battle of Los Angeles - 1942 [archive] - sfmuseum.net
4. ↑ Video editing of archival documents [archive] - Dailymotion
Battle of Los Angeles 1942.
Page B of the Los Angeles Times, published February 26, 1942.
The Battle of Los Angeles (Los Angeles Air Raid) is the name given to an event that occurred on the night of February 24 to 25, 1942, above Los Angeles. Angeles, California, United States.
The DCA opened fire for several hours in response to the tracking of several unidentified flying objects in the Los Angeles skyline. (1.) Initially, the authorities think it is a Japanese aviation attack like Pearl Harbor a few months earlier. US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, however, later stated in a press conference that this was a "false alarm" . (2.)
The Japanese declare at the end of the war that they have never sent an air force over Los Angeles. (3.) The mystery surrounding the events raises many rumors. (3.) Some authors interpret these events much later as the manifestation of extra-terrestrial UFOs. (2.)
Events
On the evening of February 23, 1942, a marauding Japanese submarine fired several shells at the Ellwood oilfield, later known as the Ellwood bombing, and caused the coastguard to be alerted. the west coast of the United States. The information is being broadcast by news agencies and is creating concern in a population still under attack from Pearl Harbor.
On February 24, 1942, a warning from the US Navy's intelligence services announced the imminence of a Japanese attack on Los Angeles within ten hours. (3.) At that time, the United States lived in fear of a Japanese offensive on the west coast, following the Pearl Harbor attack of December 7, 1941.
At 7:18 pm, the alert is given following the observation of many lights in the skies of Los Angeles and is maintained until 22 h 23. At approximately 2:15, the DCA is on the war foot after that the radars spotted an unidentified flying object 190 km west of the city. At 2:21 am, a curfew is declared on the city.
At 2:43 am, planes were sighted by an artillery colonel. At 3:16 am, a flying object (balloon or airplane) seen over Santa Monica led to the decision to open fire. DCA uses its anti-aircraft guns for several hours. More than 1,400 shells are fired, but they do not hit a single plane. Numerous testimonies mention the presence of several flying objects, of different shapes and sizes, often confused with the shells and flares of the anti-aircraft defense. The city's searchlights are trying to spot the aircraft and sweep the skies over Los Angeles. From 4:14 am, the firing of the DCA becomes sporadic.
A curfew was lifted in the morning at 7:21 am Three civilians were killed by shrapnel and three others died of a heart attack due to stress.
Consequences and assumptions
A few hours after the bombing, US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox told a news conference that it was a "false alarm" (2.) due to anxiety and stress related to the state of health. war. Soon, the event made the front page of the entire US press. (4.) This explanation seemed simplistic to many and the Long Beach Independent newspaper wrote5: "There is a mysterious reluctance on the part of the authorities to speak on this matter and it seems that censorship is at work. Although this matter is of prime importance, the commentators did not pay the expected attention. Many rumors and theories emerge as a result of the incident as to why the US DCA bombed the Los Angeles skies for over an hour. (3.)
Among them, Secretary Stimson put forward two theories to explain the origin of mysterious aircraft: those of enemy commercial aircraft operating from Mexico or California or planes equipped with lights, launched from Japanese submarines. (3.) The purpose of this attack would have been to provoke panic among the civilian population. (3.) Congressman Leland Ford put forward the idea that it could have been an army exercise or an attack to relocate the arms industries of Southern California. (3.)
A photo of the phenomenon was published in the Los Angeles Times on February 26, 1942. It shows what seems to be an object surrounded by the spotlight of the DCA. The bright spots surrounding the object could be reflections or shrapnel shots from the DCA or foo fighters. It turned out that the photo had been retouched before being published. (6.) There are three versions of this photo: one retouched and published on February 26, 1942, another retouched differently and still published by the Los Angeles Times on October 29, 1945, and the original photo6. On the latter, the presence of an object in the center of the projectors is less obvious than on the two retouched photos.
Competent war correspondents such as Ernest Pyle and Bill Henry witnessed the gunfire and wrote that they have never been able to distinguish a plane. Although many rumors (including the publication of photos) report the presence of a UFO, most theories look at the presence of balloons (meteorological balloons), regularly dropped over Los Angeles and which would have triggered the initial alarm. (3.)
Reporting Publications
In 1974, thanks to the US Freedom of Information Act, which required the US government to declassify records that did not concern national security, a confidential note from General George Marshall to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was made public. The general indicates there were unidentified planes not belonging to the American armed forces. He ventures the hypothesis of a civilian plane having deliberately attempted to spread panic, but does not explain how a slow civil plane could have escaped for an hour during the heavy fire of the American DCA, nor how he could have remained totally motionless. several minutes.
Japanese hypothesis
In February 1942, Japanese forces did not have an air base close enough to the United States to conduct air raids. Even the 5,000-km Japanese G3AM bomber could not have made a return trip, even though the Japanese had invaded Hawaii or the Midway Islands 4,000 km from Los Angeles.
Only airplanes on aircraft carriers or seaplanes aboard surface ships or submarines could have reached the United States coast provided that such vessel or vessels approach within 1,000 km of the coastline, given that the range of the Zeros, for example, which was 1,680 km.
In June 1942, the Japanese attack Midway to invade this island and the Hawaiian archipelago.
Two hundred ships participate in the attack including four giant aircraft carriers. It is hard to believe that the Japanese navy was able to send one or more aircraft carriers to less than 1,000 km from the US coast in February 1942. If they could, then they would have attempted a landing or an attack like on Darwin February 20, 1942 where participated the four major Japanese aircraft carriers Hiryū, Kaga, Sōryū and Akagi.
All Japanese aircraft carriers were located west of the Pacific on February 24, 1942. After the surrender of Japan, Japanese military authorities declared that there was no Japanese force in the area. Los Angeles, but aircraft submarines were used around Seattle.
Sociological and cultural impact
The Battle of Los Angeles is a recurring ufology theme. The event inspired the films World Invasion: Battle Los Angeles (2011) by Jonathan Liebesman, and Steven Spielberg's comedy 1941 (1979).
Notes and references
1. ↑ February 25, 1942: the battle of Los Angeles ... Americans make war on UFOs! [archive] - Blogger article on aquadesign.be
2. ↑ a b and c Historic UFOs Anti-Aircraft Blast Guns LA Mystery Invader [archive] - rense.com
3. ↑ a b c d e f g et h (en) The Battle of Los Angeles - 1942 [archive] - sfmuseum.net
4. ↑ Video editing of archival documents [archive] - Dailymotion
