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At 0306 a balloon carrying a red flare was seen over Santa Monica and four batteries of anti-aircraft artillery opened fire, whereupon "the air over Los Angeles erupted like a volcano." The artillery fire continued sporadically until 4:14 am. ), National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena (1956-1980), Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (2007–2012), Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force (current), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Los_Angeles&oldid=984106414, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 5 (3 in car accidents, 2 of heart attacks), This page was last edited on 18 October 2020, at 06:31. At the same conference he admitted that attacks were always possible and indicated that vital industries located along the coast ought to be moved inland. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0T5K9Mydl4. The U.S. Military wanted to keep them a secret to avoid panic and the impression that the Japanese campaign was meeting with any success. But I think Battle: Los Angeles caught shit for coming out too close to Skyline. Exploring the past through historical photographs. The shots seemed designed to punctuate the President's statement that "the broad oceans which have been heralded in the past as our protection from attack have become endless battlefields on which we are constantly being challenged by our enemies." Because no intelligent species would ever want to invade LA or occupy it. It's a fine action movie. Serious the whole thing is a hamfisted joke directed by a guy who gave us such gems as Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Beginning and the newest TMNT abortion. These questions were appropriate, but for the War Department to have answered them in full frankness would have involved an even more complete revelation of the weakness of our air defenses. [21][22] Los Angeles Times writer Larry Harnisch noted that the retouched photo along with faked newspaper headlines were presented as true historical material in trailers for the 2011 film Battle: Los Angeles. Or maybe Battle: Paris, I’ve been looking around while I’m here. During the night of 24/25 February 1942, unidentified objects caused a succession of alerts in southern California. Because it is an absolutely atrocious movie. [8] The rumors were taken so seriously that 500 United States Army troops moved into the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, California, to defend the famed Hollywood facility and nearby factories against enemy sabotage or air attacks. haha must be a 2/10 now. [18], Representative Leland Ford of Santa Monica called for a Congressional investigation, saying "none of the explanations so far offered removed the episode from the category of 'complete mystification' ... this was either a practice raid, or a raid to throw a scare into 2,000,000 people, or a mistaken identity raid, or a raid to lay a political foundation to take away Southern California's war industries. At 0243, planes were reported near Long Beach, and a few minutes later a coast artillery colonel spotted "about 25 planes at 12,000 feet" over Los Angeles. And in between questions about the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" reboot, he was asked whether Columbia Pictures is interested in a sequel to "Battle: Los Angeles," which was trashed by the critics when it was released last year. i cant even remember a shit of this movie . Attempts to arrive at an explanation of the incident quickly became as involved and mysterious as the "battle" itself. I was watching Battle: Los Angeles earlier this week and I remember people really hating this movie when it came out in theaters. Competent correspondents like Ernie Pyle and Bill Henry witnessed the shooting and wrote that they were never able to make out an airplane. The Los Angeles Times, in a first-page editorial on 26 February, announced that "the considerable public excitement and confusion" caused by the alert, as well as its "spectacular official accompaniments," demanded a careful explanation. The "all clear" was sounded and the blackout order was lifted at 7:21 am. Radars tracked the approaching target to within a few miles of the coast, and at 0221 the regional controller ordered a blackout. Eckhart laughed. This message predicted that developments would prove "that most previous reports had been greatly exaggerated." In the United States Congress, Representative Leland Ford wanted to know whether the incident was "a practice raid, or a raid to throw a scare into 2,000,000 people, or a mistaken identity raid, or a raid to take away Southern California’s war industries." A careful study of the evidence suggests that meteorological balloons—known to have been released over Los Angeles—may well have caused the initial alarm. Naval Intelligence issued a warning that an attack on mainland California could be expected within the next ten hours. In either case, the enemy’s purpose must have been to locate anti-aircraft defenses in the area or to deliver a blow at civilian morale. Instead, it waited a day, until after a thorough examination of witnesses had been finished. Could have been worse, could be called Battlefield Earth. The Fourth Air Force had indicated its belief that there were no planes over Los Angeles. The first news of the attack led to the dispatch of pursuit planes to the area, and subsequently three bombers joined the attempt to destroy the raider, but without success. Despite the bait and switch, the movie had a strong opening weekend and eventually managed to make over $200 million worldwide. It’s funny you have to make it real but you do hate to destroy a nice town. Its often covered with fake houses or towns. "[23], Every February, the Fort MacArthur Museum, located at the entrance to Los Angeles Harbor, hosts an entertainment event called "The Great LA Air Raid of 1942". The US had been attacked, unprovoked, by the Japanese. From this point on reports were hopelessly at variance. -LA Times There were reports, to be sure, that four enemy planes had been shot down, and one was supposed to have landed in flames at a Hollywood intersection. Newspapers were permitted to announce that a strict state of readiness against renewed attacks had been imposed, and there followed the confused action known as "The Battle of Los Angeles.". Actually I quite enjoyed it. Not being able to see the action was a detriment. This theory is supported by the fact that anti-aircraft artillery units were officially criticized for having wasted ammunition on targets which moved too slowly to have been airplanes. Thereafter the information center was flooded with reports of "enemy planes, " even though the mysterious object tracked in from sea seems to have vanished. (Less than four months later, Japanese forces bombed Dutch Harbor in Unalaska, Alaska, and landed troops in the Aleutian Islands of Kiska and Attu). Contributing to the paranoia was the fact that many American merchant ships were indeed attacked by Japanese submarines in waters off the West Coast, especially from the last half of December 1941 through February 1942: SS Agwiworld (escaped), SS Emidio (sank), SS Samoa (escaped), SS Larry Doheny (sank), SS Dorothy Phillips (damaged), SS H.M. Storey (escaped, sank later), SS Camden (sank), SS Absaroka (damaged), SS Montebello (sank), SS Barbara Olson (escaped), SS Connecticut (damaged), and SS Idaho (minor damage). Fears were expressed lest a few phony raids undermine the confidence of civilian volunteers in the aircraft warning service. This was in the height of war, a time when more surprise attacks were expected. Battle Of Los Angeles Original Footage & Broadcast February 26, 1942, This event was the (extremely loose) basis for Spielberg's WWII spoof 1941, Looks real to me!

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