You appetite calamity in Connected Beach? Set the alarm aback to the aboriginal years of World War II and accomplish us the emperor of Japan. Yeah, we apperceive there's a lot of awe-inspiring science complex in this, but you were the one who capital calamity in Connected Beach.
Our aboriginal adjustment of business would be to body planes that didn't charge to accomplish an annoying stop at Pearl Harbor. We don't affliction how it's done, aloof do it.
Next, bomb Connected Beach. Boom, war is over. Japan wins!
Long Beach was a appealing little ambition aback in those days, addendum Claudine Burnett in her best contempo book, "Fighting Fear: Connected Beach, CA in the 1940s."
Burnett, you should apperceive by now, is our go-to historian on all affairs apropos Connected Beach and Seal Beach. A longtime Connected Beach librarian, she's aggregate an aggressive basis to the library's accumulating of Connected Beach newspapers, has accounting abundant books about the city, including "Haunted Connected Beach," "Strange Sea Tales," "Murderous Intent?" about killings in boondocks in the 1880s through the 1920s, "Prohibition Madness," and several others, in accession to the history-related blogs Historic Connected Beach Blogspot and Historic Seal Beach Blogspot."
"Fighting Fear" takes up area "Prohibition Madness" ends, admitting the abhorrence of the abomination and bribery surrounding Prohibition remained connected afterwards bubbler was fabricated re-legal.
Though a bigger fear, with Japan accepting backbone in the Pacific, was Connected Beach's vulnerability to attack.
What adversary wouldn't dribble over the abstraction of animadversion out the city? As Burnett notes, "It didn't booty a abstracted to see that Connected Beach would be a prime ambition for an adversary attack. The (western) allocation of the burghal housed abundant shipyards and a Navy base; to the arctic was Douglas Aircraft Company and the Army air abject at the Municipal Airport; to the (east) was the Los Alamitos Naval Air Station and the Seal Beach Weapons Depot.
"And in the average of Connected Beach were endless oil wells fueling the ships, planes and added accessories bare to action the war."
If that doesn't complete like Sittingducksburg, USA, we can't brainstorm what would.
While that actual absolute abhorrence was befitting Connected Beachers up at night — and it was an ever-growing cardinal of Connected Beachers with abandoned Depression-era workers calamity the burghal to acquisition war-related application — there was still affluence to affront about with the balance bribery and bandit abandon that connected to affliction the burghal in post-Prohibition and with added organized abomination action surrounding bank in boondocks and in the accepted adopted bank boats.
While the aggregate of the book is about Connected Beach in World War II, including capacity on civilian defense, activity beneath war conditions, war workers and rumors of burglary Japanese submarines, Burnett additionally explores some added awkward capacity as the Pike, Zoot Suit riots, political bribery and the Black Dahlia murder.
As always, Burnett's analysis is exhaustive, with abundant of it bouncing appropriate off the pages of the newspapers that appear the contest — account that Burnett knows bigger than anyone.
Contact Tim Grobaty at 562-714-2116, tim.grobaty@presstelegram .com, @grobaty on Twitter.
Title : ‘Fighting Fear’ in Long Beach in the World War II years
Description : You appetite calamity in Connected Beach? Set the alarm aback to the aboriginal years of World War II and accomplish us the emperor of Jap...