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05-03-2008, 04:27 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | 'Battle of L.A.' Was More Like Heaven Than Hell From the Los Angeles Times July 9, 2006 Read more at the link: 'Battle of L.A.' Was More Like Heaven Than Hell 'Battle of L.A.' Was More Like Heaven Than Hell -------------- Anti-aircraft crews sent in after Pearl Harbor swam in pools, rode horses and ate well, with Ida Lupino lending one unit her personal chef -------------- Days after Pearl Harbor, a convoy carrying more than 700 U.S. soldiers rumbled over the Cahuenga Pass and east on Sunset Boulevard. The heavily armored, camouflaged trucks cruised at 20 mph, dropping off 12-man teams about five miles apart along Sunset and elsewhere, from Beverly Hills to Arcadia. Their mission: to protect the City of Angels from Japanese attack. It was Dec. 16, 1941 — nine days after the date that lives in infamy. Fear gripped the West Coast. The government warned residents to heed blackouts, prepare for air raids and learn to extinguish incendiary bombs.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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05-03-2008, 04:29 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | From the Los Angeles Times April 29, 2007 Read more here: Air-raid Sirens Are Relics of a Jittery Past Air-raid Sirens Are Relics of a Jittery Past -------------- The devices sprouted all over L.A. County during World War II and were revived in the Cold War
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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05-03-2008, 03:27 PM
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You're Top Poster: #28  | There is a book by Homer Lea which predicts both the pending clash between the two natural rivals of the Pacific: Japan and the USA. Not only does it give cogent arguement for the inevitable clash but it also postulates several avenues of attack for Japan, one of which was through the Los Angles Basin and the desert behind it, into the American Heartland. Curiously enough this book was penned circa 1917. |
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05-03-2008, 04:10 PM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | Remember that Billy Mitchell prepared a staff paper which said that America would be attacked by the japanese at Pearl Harbour at the start of the next war! That was in the 1920s!
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05-03-2008, 10:29 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Had a fair bit of foresight, that man.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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25-04-2008, 03:29 AM
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You're Top Poster: #67 | Battle of Los Angeles Quote:
"Air-raid sirens are relics of a jittery past," written in 2007. So in another 65 years someone will do an LA times archive search on the subject of the "Battle of Los Angeles" write some more opinions based on this article as though it is fact, and so on and so on until there is nothing left but history revisionism. If the person who wrote the above article for the LA Times would have been in LA that early morning after midnight at the time of the now famous "Battle of Los Angeles" he or she would have had a great case of jitters. For real. | |
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25-04-2008, 04:27 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Welcome, Liz! Feel free to introduce yourself. Hope you enjoy it here.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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25-04-2008, 12:16 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Hi Liz, Welcome to the forum. Tell us a little about yourself. Cheers Geoff
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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25-04-2008, 12:32 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | HI Liz, welcome to the forum.
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