Battle of Los Angeles

When

25 Feb 1942

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

34.05° N, 118.24° W

Description

anti-air shelling during WWII in Los Angeles, CA, against apparently nothing

War

World War II

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “"Battle of Los Angeles": Over 1,400 AA shells are fired at an unidentified, slow-moving object (probably a meteorological balloon) in the skies over Los Angeles”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ロサンゼルスの戦い”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• World War II1 Sep 1939 · World war · Deaths 75,000,000