Japenese attack California coast...
Item # 727276
February 24, 1942
MINNEAPOLIS MORNING TRIBUNE, Feb. 24, 1942
* Attack on California coast
* Ellwood oil field shelling
* Japanese submarine I-17
The front page banner headline proclaims: "SUB SHELLS WEST COAST" with subheads. (see images) Nice for display.
Complete with all 16 pages, light toning at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally in good condition.
Background: On February 23, 1942, the Japanese submarine I-17, commanded by Kozo Nishino, surfaced off the coast of Goleta, California, and fired roughly two dozen shells from its deck gun at the Ellwood oil field. While the assault caused minor physical damage—destroying a lone oil derrick and a pump house totaling less than $1,000 in property losses—its psychological impact on the American home front was massive. As the first wartime shelling of the United States mainland by a foreign power, the attack shattered the nation's sense of domestic security just months after Pearl Harbor, sending shockwaves of invasion panic through the West Coast. This heightened state of public hysteria directly triggered the chaotic false alarm known as the "Battle of Los Angeles" the very next night, and ultimately fueled the political and social pressure that accelerated the forced internment of over 110,000 Japanese-Americans under Executive Order 9066.
* Attack on California coast
* Ellwood oil field shelling
* Japanese submarine I-17
The front page banner headline proclaims: "SUB SHELLS WEST COAST" with subheads. (see images) Nice for display.
Complete with all 16 pages, light toning at the margins, small binding holes along the spine, generally in good condition.
Background: On February 23, 1942, the Japanese submarine I-17, commanded by Kozo Nishino, surfaced off the coast of Goleta, California, and fired roughly two dozen shells from its deck gun at the Ellwood oil field. While the assault caused minor physical damage—destroying a lone oil derrick and a pump house totaling less than $1,000 in property losses—its psychological impact on the American home front was massive. As the first wartime shelling of the United States mainland by a foreign power, the attack shattered the nation's sense of domestic security just months after Pearl Harbor, sending shockwaves of invasion panic through the West Coast. This heightened state of public hysteria directly triggered the chaotic false alarm known as the "Battle of Los Angeles" the very next night, and ultimately fueled the political and social pressure that accelerated the forced internment of over 110,000 Japanese-Americans under Executive Order 9066.
Category: World War II
