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23 de feb. de 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. Blackouts and...
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.
“The Battle of Los Angeles” During the night of 24/25 February 1942, unidentified objects caused a succession of alerts in southern California. On the 24th, a warning issued by naval intelligence indicated that an attack could be expected within the next ten hours.
Las alarmas de ataque aéreo sonaron en todo el condado de Los Ángeles en la noche del 24 al 25 de febrero de 1942. Un apagón total se ordenó y miles de guardias de ataque aéreo fueron convocados a sus posiciones.
In March 1995, Wil-Dog Abers (future bassist of Ozomatli) and Alfredo Ortiz (drummer for Yeska), along with several other, mostly African American and Latina/o workers, took over the Emergency Resources Building in downtown Los Angeles in an attempt to organize a union among the youth who worked for the Los Angeles Conservation Corps (LACC), a ...
Searchlights and anti-aircraft fire over Los Angeles, February 25, 1942. Unretouched photo from the L.A. Times Photographic Collection at the UCLA Library. In early February 1942, the United States was in full war mode just two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
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. What, if anything, is being fired upon remains a mystery.
