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Strange Corridor: Battle Of Los Angeles Open this result in new window
MSNBC News Report 2 mins 31 secs. Original CBS Radio Broadcast Feb 26 1942 2 mins ... I don't know but I know it wasn't a weather balloon. ...
strangecorridor.blogspot.com/2007/12/battle-of-los-angeles.html
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The Smoking (Anti-Aircraft) Guns (of Los Angeles, 1942), page 1 Open this result in new window
Discusion about The Smoking (Anti-Aircraft) Guns (of Los Angeles, 1942) in the AboveTopSecret.com website alternative topics discussion forum Aliens & UFOs.
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The Smoking (Anti-Aircraft) Guns (of Los Angeles, 1942), page 1 Open this result in new window
Discusion about The Smoking (Anti-Aircraft) Guns (of Los Angeles, 1942) in the AboveTopSecret.com website alternative topics discussion forum Aliens & UFOs.
www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread329188/pglastpost
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1942 World War II Chronology Open this result in new window
It became known as "The Battle of Los Angeles. March 2, 1942 ... a responsible member of each Japanese family in San Francisco is to report there for instructions. ...
www.sfmuseum.org/war/42.html
Originally posted by daniel_g
Comparison 10 should be an indication that the two pictures cannot be compared the way you did(note how one picture completely lacks any evidence of beams, while the other clearly shows them). If comparison 10 is doing that, I wonder what the other comparisons do.
Originally posted by WitnessFromAfar
I'm just saying it's a little early to draw conclusions, as all the data isn't quite in. But again thanks for the map, and I'll certainly post a flight plan map that reflects the data as soon as I have one. If you beat me to it I'll be more than pleased to duplicate the results independently so we can have a 'sure' thing!
I do happen to agree with you that we don't know what the referenced 'peak' is yet. It could well be an oil tank, like you suggested, or it could be the backside of Griffith Observatory, or any number of other things, including a mountain/hillside.
The white lines and dots are tracer and flak explosions from ground Anti-Aircraft positions.
WW II searchlights formed part of a system of aircraft detection linking (a) locator devices, (b) searchlights, and (c) antiaircraft (AAA) guns. The locators sent electronic information to the lights and guns, which in turn tracked the target in synch with each other. Once a locator of any of the aforementioned types had "locked on" to an aerial target, the concept was for both lights and guns to be trained on the target (via the height and distance data received from the locator) so the target could be nearly simultaneously illuminated and then destroyed.
A view from an RAF Liberator of "moderate, inaccurate heavy and light flak" over a target. The black puffs are exploding A-A shells.