{"id":678463,"date":"2010-02-26T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.hyper.net:\/\/7d6ac742d2999d4b9e8dd9d6cafacf17"},"modified":"2010-02-26T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T20:36:00","slug":"68-years-ago-this-month-the-%e2%80%9cbattle-of-los-angeles%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/678463","title":{"rendered":"68 years ago this month, the \u201cBattle of Los Angeles\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was 68 years ago this month- In the dark morning hours of February 25, 1942, less than three months after Pearl Harbor, a million people in Southern California witnessed first hand, the “Battle of Los Angeles”.<\/p>\n

This was not a drill, nor a practice for war.  A very large unknown aerial object appeared over Los Angeles.  At the time, it was feared that the Japanese were bringing the war to our western shores.<\/p>\n

The next morning, the Los Angeles Examiner’s headlines read: \u201cAir Battle Rages over Los Angeles,\u201d followed (in smaller type) by \u201cOne Plane Reported Downed on Vermont Avenue by Gunfire\u201d.<\/p>\n

What was the object that drew such an intense anti-aircraft barrage that February morning?  Here is a riveting account of one eye witness, C. Scott Littleton. <\/p>\n

The ‘Battle of Los Angeles’, Part 1<\/a>
The ‘Battle of Los Angeles’, Part 2 <\/a><\/p>\n

Source: The UFO Chronicles<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: (1942) Searchlights light up the UFO as the military tries in vain to shoot it down.<\/p>\n

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It was 68 years ago this month- In the dark morning hours of February 25, 1942, less than three months after Pearl Harbor, a million people in Southern California witnessed first hand, the “Battle of Los Angeles”. This was not a drill, nor a practice for war.  A very large unknown aerial object appeared over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2QuX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}