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World History

bucolic_frolic

(46,743 posts) Mon Apr 20, 2020, 04:46 PM Apr 2020

Japanese 'Invasion' of America 1942

It's sure not widely known that the Japanese Navy shelled California in WWII. I knew there was fear of a Japanese attack, and an attack of fear in LA that the US 'responded' to, but this video goes into more detail. A Japanese sub shelled north of Santa Barbara.