Battle of Los Angeles, 1942: Fear, Misperception, and the U.S. Home Front

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During the Great Los Angeles Air Raid of 1942, a dramatic false alarm driven by real threats, radar limitations, weather, and widespread fear led to hours of searchlights and anti-aircraft fire with no enemy planes shot down, and it helped fuel conspiracy theories and wartime paranoia that fed attitudes around Executive Order 9066.

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Not even three months after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Americans on the west coast thought they were under attack. Sirens wailed across Los Angeles in the early morning hours of Feb. 25, 1942. Within minutes, searchlights swept the sky while tho