Japanese 'Invasion' of America (Part 1 - LA)

In early 1942, fear of a Japanese invasion of the US West Coast ran very high after a series of submarine attacks. Then the Japanese bombarded the coast itself, triggering the infamous 'Los Angeles Air Raid'. Discover the full story of Japanese attacks on America.
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[@tech9803]

I live near Ellwood, the attack is a big event in local history. The oilfield is now a golf course. They found a few errant artillery shells up in the hills after the attack, one exploded in a wildfire in 1955.

[@BHuang92]

I heard that a firefighter tragically died because of that explosion.........

[@denizmetint.462]

@Francis L'Heure He was also an anti-Semite that's why he used to be big butt buddies with the Nazis.

[@lynnwood7205]

Thank you. Interesting but of local history

[@benpotter6832]

@@denizmetint.462 butt buddies? What are you, 9 years old or something?

[@s.marcus3669]

Tech, go watch "Flying Leathernecks" for a funny line about Goleta!

[@kmg2480]

Congratulations, Mark. Your channel has become the foremost authority on KZbin of obscure historical content. Tenfold more interesting than anything you'd find on the so called 'History' channel.

[@MarkFeltonProductions]

Wow, thank you!

[@useodyseeorbitchute9450]

No way... Only "Ancient Aliens Channel" could count as "authoritative source" according to yt guidelines. ;)

[@_.Alucard._]

@@MarkFeltonProductions Thanks for everything 👍

[@greenneck2472]

@@MarkFeltonProductions Same Goes, Up a 5AM in AUS to watch you're videos!

[@johnlicht9151]

History Channel is no longer about History. It should not be called History. Pawn Shop don't a freaking thing to do with real history.

[@theoturner1137]

Damage to the refinery may have been comparatively light, but that was never the captain's target. Make no mistake the attack was 100% successful. That guilty prickly pear cactus was utterly obliterated by a direct hit.

[@stelpal80]

...Admiral, Operation Cactus Ended Successful-- Capt. XYZ...

[@RandallFlaggNY]

War crime?

[@bluedevil006]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@firefly9838]

@@RandallFlaggNY cactus crime

[@senorpepper3405]

😂nice

[@toastnjam7384]

My mom was living in Santa Monica when this happen and it scared the hell out of her. She thought the invasion was happening and was expecting to see Japanese troops storming up Santa Monica Blvd.

[@oscarchinnick5314]

Lol 😂👌

[@blackwaltz3135]

@@oscarchinnick5314 you wouldn't laugh if you were living back then without having a clue whats going on

[@aeroripper]

It would have been a bizzare sight, but short lived. They would have no chance of holding much ground on the mainland before reinforcements from all over the country arrived.

[@Rivers198]

@@aeroripper behind every blade of grass would be a rifle

[@turkeysandwich1998]

@@aeroripper not to mention the hundreds of armed citizens ready to fight thanks to our second amendment

[@CPDheadstomp]

The oil refinery was never the target. The submarine was targeting the cactuses.

[@pentuplove6542]

Cacti. Your Rockefeller Education System education shows.

[@stevecarey2030]

Nice.

[@Jonathan-fb1kj]

Do you seriously mention the Rockefeller institute in all of your comments? Like seriously.

[@Number1FanProductions]

@@Jonathan-fb1kj lemme guess lil dudes a nut

[@-oiiio-3993]

It would make a great episode of Drunk History.

[@emknight84]

Technically Speaking a German U-Boat accidentally shelled the town of Orleans Massachusetts in 1918 while attacking shipping and trying to cut the transatlantic cable.

[@64curarine]

Yes..U 156 attacked a tug and barge just off Orleans Massachusetts on July 21, 1918.

[@HarrisonGoldfarb]

The History Guy made a video on it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWrUZJRprb10qbc

[@SuperDiablo101]

Yes I live on the cape and i think it also attempted to shell Otis air Force Base as well

[@lissamelone9230]

emknight84 can u please give me details ov wat transatlantic cable is and its purpose is/was THANK Q N LOOK FORWARD TO YUR INFO GOD BLESS N YUR FAMILY N FRIENDS LOVE FROM A REAL AMERICAN CITIZEN KNOT UNITED STATES citizen huge fFFFN DIFFERENCE

[@jorisvanoeffel4721]

Lissa Melone the transatlantic cable is a communication wire across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, between Europe and the US. At first it was only telegraph, but nowadays it’s phone and internet as well.

[@PL-rf4hy]

First day on the I-17: "Whatever you do, do NOT use the word 'cactus' around the captain."

[@FireflyDivision]

"Nagano has canceled the order issues to submarines at he feared retaliatory attacks on Japanese installations and towns ". Bruh, you just blew up the biggest US naval base in the pacific.

[@bubbasbigblast8563]

It was still a military target; the Japanese hope was that the Americans wouldn't be willing to fight a long, bloody war, and killing civilians on the American mainland would pretty much guarantee the Americans would go all-in. The Doolittle raid made it clear the Americans were already in a state of total war, and Guadalcanal made it clear Japan would actually lose at their current rate, so that Japanese mindset didn't last long.

[@johnscanlon7757]

Yup he had already fucked up

[@lardlover3730]

@@bubbasbigblast8563 ^

[@timbrwolf1121]

The cognitive dissonance of the Japanese during WW2 was insane. They also decided that bombing Japanese lands was a war crime and often executed American pilots shot down over the mainland

[@EnigmaEnginseer]

@@lurk7967 The American fleet was moved because they believed the Japanese would attack their holdings in Guam and the Philippines. People actually protested against this action because they felt they were bottlenecking the naval force by moving it. The oil embargo was effective, Japan was slated to completely run out of oil in the years to come and thus their ability to maintain their overseas sphere of influence would have been impossible. There indeed was a submarine sunk at Pearl Harbor and more sited before the attack began. The complacency of the Americans is what allowed the attack to be as successful as it was. Even then it wasn’t that big a blow to American naval power as battleships were becoming obsolete and the aircraft carrier was taking its place.

[@zeus66061]

"if it were aliens, we should commend their forbearance in not vaporizing la la land after such a welcoming."

[@workonesabs]

Probably it was Enterprise NX01 because it went back in time and was intercepted by American aircraft. Also near the future Starfleet site.

[@animalian01]

not really why would you assume if it was aliens that they would be armed?

[@shaniamonde7341]

@@animalian01 If you were leading an expedition to a planet of unknown aliens who were in the middle of a global war, wouldnt you want some form of defence?

[@dry5555]

Oh, he said commend? My mistake. Naturally, I thought he said condemn.

[@IanP1963]

Were the aliens ALLIES or AXIS ?

[@rade-blunner7824]

All this because of a mishap with a cactus, what an absolute madlad. The KZbin channel Lemmino did a pretty good video about the supposed "air raid" a while back, it's not often I watch a Mark Felton video and think "wait a minute, I know this...".

[@freppie_]

don't mess with peoples pride, all you have to learn from this.

[@ryanchevalier4316]

LOVE LEMMINO! His videos are so well put together.

[@Starlesslemon]

@@freppie_ lol ok. Landed about a dozen shells while we firebombed every major Japanese city and dropped two nukes.

[@Doughboy842]

Count Dankula should make a vid about it.

[@alonsocushing2398]

That cactus should have received a Medal of Honor.

[@islanderws]

I feel like a little kid in a candy store everytime I hear this intro music, I know for a fact I'll be learning something new today from Mark Felton's well researched military documentaries.

[@thecrusader1095]

We could make a religion outta this

[@pugsymalone6539]

Me too.

[@bliesberg]

"WHAT ARE WE SHOOTING AT!?" "I DUNNO, WHATEVER THE HELL THEY'RE SHOOTING AT!"

[@nssupremacy_4281]

the blind leading the blind yep

[@Flippersflops]

Exactly what happens on duck hunts all the time.

[@manjelos]

I did heard a story what happened during NATO action against Yugoslavia. One a bit drunk officer came to AA gunners and told them to target one single light in the evening sky. They ask twice why. He respond, this is NATO AWACS plane. The crew did know, it was planet Venus what he did pointed at 😂 🤣

[@nsjx]

lol

[@redram5150]

I'm happy to see Mark has retained his sense of humor in spite of the current mood of the world. Another well done, sir

[@Crave4More]

yup the World not just ur country

[@Aureus_]

@@Crave4More He said the world

[@EnigmaEnginseer]

@@Crave4More the entire world, not just the US

[@adrxme3483]

@@EnigmaEnginseer Did anyone say just the US?

[@johntechwriter]

Those concentration camps for the Japs were a side splitter.

[@SgtSayWhat]

The Americans just felt they weren't getting the full WW2 experience without a blitz so made their own.

[@freppie_]

lol

[@opairsoft8100]

Joshua Phillips eh not really, we only started getting into that after the war when we found the Germans Horten Ho229...which looks basically like a skinny b-2 fighter version

[@kenttheboomer721]

@Joshua Phillips True story. Area 51 only 250 miles from Santa Barbara. Coincidence? I think not!!!

[@themostextrordenaryconvolu3406]

OP Airsoft Not true. Look up the Northrop n1m. Northrop was designing single wing fighters as far back as 1939.

[@Thomgxx100]

Sadly Godzilla was too busy in the South Western Pacific.

[@NightDocs]

Would love to see a video like “What happened to all the Japanese submarines after WWII?” Lots of stuff on the u-boats but I haven’t seen anything on Japanese subs

[@teen_laqueefa]

I love your content

[@theccpisaparasite8813]

Probably none left.

[@Mewithabeard]

I think I read somewhere that they were mostly all dismantled along with much of the other equipment in the military and the metal ending up helping in construction in the post war recovery. I'm going to look it up, am quite curious as I might be just misremembering what I'd read.

[@macleunin]

I knew about the “battle” of LA, but never anything about that submarine attack on the refinery!

[@docvideo93]

Alternate title: A Japanese Captain's vendetta with a cactus.

[@lanebowles8170]

I didn't know about that story, but if true it shows the guy took his honor seriously, toooooooooo seriously!

[@cadenrolland5250]

And he never actually hit the cactus back. Ha ha

[@feetgoaroundfullflapsC]

@Mark Grudt And blinding flashes..

[@metalgear6531]

You can shell our shore, but you can't shell all the laughs we had at your expense, Commander Pricklebutt.

[@VietDudez]

The title should be : A Japanese Captain order his man to bomber cactus.

[@kernjones1982]

Also interesting, the Japanese sub I-26 shelled a lighthouse on Vancouver Island, Canada. They found a few shell fragments in the 70’s

[@cgaccount3669]

It missed 😁

[@comikdebris]

Well know to locals

[@Eckoolt]

@@cgaccount3669 It was hard to aim I guess lol

[@calvinnickel9995]

Yes. Estevan Point.

[@KevinSmith-jh1ld]

If you can find the book "Keepers of the Light" by Donald Graham, there is an interesting chapter about the Estevan Point attack which contains evidence suggesting the shelling may not have been done by the Japanese. In a nutshell, there is a possibility it was a manufactured incident designed to wake up apathetic and isolationist segments of the Canadian population, unite public opinion, and to resolve a parliamentary crisis over the introduction of conscription - all of which it did, manufactured or not. Having lived on Vancouver Island my whole life, the event has always fascinated me, and encountering a different perspective on it was an eye-opener. Of course the official version will always be that it was a Japanese submarine, and people will continue to believe whatever they like. Honestly, I'd prefer to believe it was the Japanese myself! On closer examination though, there are a number of details that were either omitted from the official version or that simply don't add up; certainly the timing was convenient for resolving the very divisive conscription issue, and just about anyone would probably have to admit that governments have been known to lie to their people, particularly in wartime - so there is something on the other side of it too.

[@miguelr6989]

My teacher played the film 1941 in history class. Thanks for clearing that up for me!!!!

[@crazyturd143]

This is why being able to laugh at yourself is an essential life skill.

[@crazyturd143]

@@MrDaiseymay how so?

[@kraanz]

Americans, or in fact, most big nations, don't seem to possess that skill.

[@crazyturd143]

@@kraanz I have found a direct correlation between the ability to laugh at oneself, and the length of ones genitalia. And an inverse correlation with the lift on their tuck.

[@leary4]

My dad stayed in the reserve after the war. He was in a radar unit exactly like the one described. He said their gear was notoriously unreliable. Gotta remember radar was awfully new at the time.

[@richardkocksworthy8423]

Yeah radar was only 55 years old.........

[@pentuplove6542]

Admit it that Rockefeller Education System produces thought who can't engage critical thought. The English were using radar to great effect.

[@Number1FanProductions]

@@pentuplove6542 Off yourself, pretentious smooth brain.

[@wysoft]

"produces thought who can't engage critical thought" Okay

[@oarsteed]

Richard Kocksworthy Basic principles of radar were discovered in the 19th Century but rudimentary operational systems were not fielded until the middle 1930s. The key word is rudimentary. The British Chain Home system wasn’t fully fleshed out until 1940 but, despite its elementary technology, it proved useful during the Blitz/Battle of Britain. The term radar was not coined until 1940.

[@Rocky-wc4hl]

Everyone gangsta until the captain comes back for revenge because you laughed at him for slipping on a cactus

[@airsoftteam805]

I grew up where the shells landed. I remember as a kid we would sneak onto the oil derrick loading piers. There's nothing left there now though they tore them all down, unfortunately.

[@dih9788]

Mark, I love your dry sense of humour. Would you enjoy looking into Operation Mainbrace 1952 and the overflights that we had visitors with advanced craft observing our fleets?

[@Montana_horseman]

I grew up just south of Elwood beach, the sight of the shelling near Santa Barbara. I knew men that served in both WW1 and WW2. What they told me me about the Japanese sub captain was at some point before the war he had been in a physical fight along with others from his oil ship with some of the American workers on the pier. His attack and disregard of the orders to not shell was because of his desire for vengeance for that pretty bad beating he took. A side note to that shelling event is that there once (perhaps still there) was a bar and restaurant just across highway 101 from Elwood called "The Timbers" it had recycled wood timbers as beams inside that were from the pier that was struck. There were embedded pieces of shrapnel in many of those timbers. As for the "Attack" on LA my Stepfather witnessed that as he was a jazz musician playing in LA that night. His Uncle was a CD warden and did indeed die of a heart attack that night. He told me how when the guns opened up it was mayhem. They were shooting at everything and anything they thought they saw. He told me the damage done by the shrapnel falling as well as all the bullets from the anti aircraft machine guns, kept the roof repair workers busy for months afterward. My step father gave me a a couple shells he picked up that night and they have the manufacture date stamp of 1941 on the base. Growing up knowing and spending a lot of time around WW1 and WW2 veterans I heard some amazing stories from a truly "I was there" perspective. They were amazing men themselves and it truly was an honor to know each of them.

[@mrj9128]

Montana horseman Thank you for the story.

[@Montana_horseman]

@@mrj9128 You are welcome. The world war 1 and 2 vets I knew were a huge influence on me growing up and it meant a lot to me when they shared their experiences.

[@Montana_horseman]

@los Angeleno Thanks, I was so pleased to see Mark covering this. He did well too!

[@663rainmaker]

Montana horseman a Wyomingite here in California USA 🇺🇸 I agree Mark did a wonderful job of reporting this

[@rodneypodesta6087]

I agree with you the people of Los Angeles were very brave people going thrue the BOMBARDMENT

[@r2gelfand]

Visions of John Belushi and the movie 1941are dancing in my head!

[@joe-bang8501]

Holly-woood

[@Lerxstification]

Did we run in fear when the Krauts bombed Pearl Harbor??? NO!!!!!!

[@elkhunter8664]

Same here. Steven Spielberg obviously did his research even though this was a comedy. Highly underrated movie in my opinion.

[@alswann2702]

Eat lead slopehead!!

[@custardthepipecat6584]

dakota let me hear your guns!!

[@guccimalcs]

22 years old and this is the first I’ve heard of this. Thanks for sharing man. As someone who loves history, this was a cool find.

[@NoGodsNoMasters1885]

Yours is easily my favorite channel on KZbin, Dr. Felton! The consistent quality of your work and the speed with which you put each video out doesn’t go unnoticed!

[@Lanthire942]

This is literally everything good about old History channel, and none of the bad. Your voice is perfect for narrating historical events, and we don't have to deal with overly dramatic, biased, or outright false information. Not to mention, there isn't a commercial break every five minutes, followed by them spending two minutes of the next five minutes repeating everything that happened before the break. Well done Mark.

[@kimi8638]

I liked you're comment, but still your information is wrong. 6 ads in this Video 22:6=Roughly 3-4 so that does mean there's even more ads then u said.

[@JostVanWair]

@@kimi8638 He can't control the ads.

[@ntvypr4820]

What U said and he can't control the ads, Creepy.

[@xtakk]

No ads of you get KZbin premium or red, whatever it is called. Best ten bucks I've ever spent

[@jasonbrown467]

i did sense a bit of bias when talking about the japanese being rounded up and sent to camp, like it was wrong and impossible that their could be any enemy agents in that group

[@_Matsimus_]

Great video Mark 👍👍

[@joshuaashton1929]

Yo Matsimus!

[@RealRecogniseReal-]

🤪

[@randymoyan7871]

This is actually a story Ufologists call "The Battle of Los Angeles"

[@larrymagee8758]

Yes, and it actually happened, but there was never a resolution to it. No one ever figured out what it was they were shooting at.

[@larrymagee8758]

@J C and went back to alpha centuri. 👍👌🤗🤣😅🤔🤨

[@micjordan1919]

And they never managed to shoot anything out of the sky

[@johnscanlon7757]

@@micjordan1919 that was acknowledged

[@blankett9798]

"ufologists" lmfaoo

[@sidefx996]

This channel has become an absolute treasure on here. Thank you for continuing to provide such fantastic content.

[@TheFlatlander440]

I got a kick out of seeing the "Official Black Out Car" but it was painted white.

[@pentuplove6542]

Rockefeller Education System destroys critical thinking.

[@tommyfred6180]

to me painting a blackout car white makes perfect sense. i can't see what other colour you'd paint it. except maybe yellow.

[@cody_d3628]

@@tommyfred6180 black mabey

[@fazole]

@@pentuplove6542 It's up to parents to educate and raise their kids. Schools do not relieve them of that duty.

[@ronaldlundelius936]

If it was painted black you would not be able to read the words. L.O.L.

[@TrickiVicBB71]

I had a chuckle at, "not vaporizing la la land"

[@Fe7Ace]

I love the idea of it being aliens, rocking up randomly to find the whole world at war and getting treated like that off-hand, then just throwing their hands up and leaving like 'wtf is wrong with this place'.

[@whyuhatan]

LOL Why would they even bother Probably we're just looking down at us amused Zeta come look at this The primitive locals are attempting to shoot us down They're not even scratching our force fields!

[@chrisb.1214]

Yeah, that made me laugh too.

[@johnpotter4750]

Hah, can you imagine a U-Boat sliding up to Scarborough on the surface spend 30mins shelling, then to surface out, Costal Command would have bombed it at least by the second shell, while holding off the fighters trying to scrag it. I'm sorry no disrespect, I suppose we would have been as bad as that in 1935.

[@donmarlon5924]

Wonderful story I'd never heard before! Thanks so much for posting it.

[@XemawthEvo2]

This is an outstanding video in terms on context. I have never before heard the story of S-17 connected to the events that preceded so eloquently. Well done Mark

[@peguus9805]

The Japanese Aleutian islands campaign would be a really interesting subject!

[@johanvandermeulen9696]

Peguus That is true. Go on soldier was the subtitle of a drawing in a German language radio course during the German ocupation of Holland. The soldier was a Japanese on the Aleutian Islands.

[@liamroggenkamp]

Was about to suggest that one

[@StalinTheMan0fSteel]

Yes! There was a final Banzai-charge that was pretty interesting!

[@jackrainwater7966]

That's what I thought this was going to be about.

[@leomarkaable1]

In the city of Kodiak, on Kodiak Island, the powerhouse was redesigned to look like a hotel, using false chimneys and windows. It is still standing today. The city fathers were quite worried about a raid by Japanese bombers. Kodiak is host to the largest Coast Guard base in America today, as it was in the time of WW2, I believe. It was a tempting target.

[@paulkirkland3263]

The cactus incident, with its eventual consequences, is now top of my list of obscure WW2 facts. A great video; 22 minutes of factual history and not a minute of 'padding'.

[@triumphant39]

I love these long-form videos of yours. Far better than anything TV channels have put out. Amazing history and it's an experience just to watch it.

[@88hyperman]

Thanks 😊 🙏 for the incredible footage!

[@tankacebo9128]

came for the I-boats, left with information on what we Americans call "The Battle of Los Angeles", and far more information than I thought existed about a seemingly cunning I-Boat captain. This is why I love this channel!

[@stormykeep9213]

I was thinking initially this would be a video about the Aleutian Island invasion...I had no idea a sub actually attacked an oil refinery off the coast of California! Once again, Mark found wwii content I've not heard of!

[@Tygor9000]

A fort in Oregon was also shelled, I think he’ll cover that soon. Look up the Bombardment of Fort Stevens

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Same here - the stuff actually in this is interesting but much smaller-scale, and says more about how jittery West Coasters were at the time than anything else.

[@dELTA13579111315]

I live in California and idk how this was the first time I've heard about what happened near Santa Barbara

[@javiervonsydow]

Mr. Felton I live in LA and I welcome this part of our history here that I never knew! Thank you so much for your excellent work!

[@BatMan-oe2gh]

Your videos are just getting better and better, and it shown by the amount of Subs you now have. Was not long ago you were celebrating 500K, now look at it. And you research is just brilliant. The finer points you put in make the story so interesting and worth watching Thanks Mark. Cheers from Australia.

[@josecarrales2842]

The comment about Aliens having spared "La La Land" made me outright laugh!!! Well done!

[@seananthonyegan3395]

Do you think he found the cactus that caused his misery .

[@ioanekoroivuki543]

No, he's still looking. 🤣

[@curtisthomas2670]

I read that after the war he migrated to the US and became a chef, his specialty was stir fried cactus and tofu in plum sauce. Tasty revenge...

[@ShawnD1027]

The cactus patch where he fell is labeled on the picture as "Kate Bell's Cactus" -- Google that and you'll find some interesting history.

[@prla5400]

well, he probably declared some Yamato cuckery on worldwide cactuses

[@ronaldmasterbud1551]

"""YES """" !!!!!!

[@wildman029934]

Thank you Mark Felton for another wonderful video

[@silentblackhole]

One of your best Mark. Loved it, thanks.

[@pierluigiadreani2159]

Are we sure that the commander wasn't try to kill all the cactus that got his ass? How do we know that he was aiming to the oil rafinery

[@richardthomas5362]

Don't condemn his gunnery till we know what the target was :)

[@garrettrector3953]

Well you could say that the cactus was the target the refinery was just a 20 pointer target

[@danielphillips486]

😂

[@power2084]

he was literally butt hurt

[@mikem5922]

“Step up to red alert." “Sir, are you sure? It does mean changing the bulb."

[@karlmuller4067]

Boys from the Dwarf.😀

[@koharumi1]

Red alert 3

[@CompetentSalesUSA]

Excellent presentation. Thank you.

[@donnybellaire9102]

Mark ,your channel is the best and fully researched history channel on youtube… some of the inside details you obtain for all of your programs are what sets your history apart from everyone else.. The show on OBERSALZSBURG and the mountain views in Germany was the best, thank you...

[@maroman556]

He actually made a direct hit. That damn cactus bush can be seen laying in ruins from a direct 140 mm hit.

[@korbell1089]

I remember seeing a documentary of this by Steven Spielberg years ago.

[@bdv861]

Yeah, I wish Spielberg had taken some artistic license instead of making it all factual.

[@SupesMe]

korbell LOL you beat me to it :-)

[@ricardosoto5770]

Banzai!

[@stug41]

The name's Wild Bill Kelso, and don't you forget it!

[@drunkmike6364]

Hollis Wood!!!

[@TheTenthLeper]

An absolutely brilliant video. Keep up the outstanding work!

[@leisuresuitlarry3140]

Always a pleasure looking your docu's . My sincere thanks mate!

[@MC-wr8sz]

Mark Felton Binging keeps me sane in the days of covid

[@tcofield1967]

I remember this. They kidnapped a Christmas tree salesman and blew up an amusement park.

[@denizmetint.462]

Light'er up!

[@TheFlatlander440]

The movie 1941. LOL

[@smoothvirus]

HOLLYWOOD!!

[@wolfshanze5980]

Was his name "Hollis Wood"?

[@formerparatrooper]

Yes, didn't they wreck a ferris wheel with a talking dummy?

[@tylergunderson7678]

This guy mixes history and humor and it is the best ever we’ll done Mark

[@georgeoconnor-photographer6057]

"If it was aliens, we should commend their forebearings for not vaporising La La Land after such a welcome" I love these genius little injections of humor in these videos! Classic Mark Felton style. haha

[@merucrypoison296]

It really was aliens doe

[@craigkdillon]

The level of fear must have been great. The small bombardment by the sub had an amplified effect on American fears. I understand a bit more now why the Nisei were so badly treated.

[@Doughboy842]

I can imagine. The battle Over the skies of Los Angeles that era where Anti aircraft gunners fired wildly in the air must had been on edge too.

[@greyscaleb1537]

@@Doughboy842 why else did you think they fired? Because they're sleepy? No, stop pointing out the obvious

[@josephking6515]

They were treated badly because the white man wanted their land and businesses. Strange how the Japanese on Hawaii, you know that little island with the really important naval base, were *never* rounded up and interned. It was only the ones on the mainland, especially California who got treated like dogs, worse than dogs. In the South, German POWs were treated way better than African American servicemen. Land of the free home of the brave who hide under white sheets. What a great country!

[@ENiceGeo]

@@Doughboy842 Nerves were jittery at the time. Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor some US carrier planes from the Enterprise flew to the island and jittery anti-aircraft gunners opened fire on them, thinking it was another Japanese air raid, and a few were accidentally shot down.

[@verro9153]

Seeing a Japanese officer fall into a cactus was probably the highlight of those oil workers year!

[@Doughboy842]

Yeah. Although I'm sure he was pretty butthurt about it.

[@MultiCappie]

As the video says, he was not in the Japanese armed forces at the time of the "cactus event." He was a merchant seaman.

[@lorrycamill941]

Verrii have you heard of the story of Japanese parachuting in Australia 🇦🇺 and they landed on crocodiles 🐊 that as funny 😂

[@dave8599]

Attacking against orders for a personnel vendetta is a war crime. If that captain survived the war, he should have been executed for his crime.

[@Thebossstage1]

"You laugh at me for falling on cactus? I laugh at you for shooting ghosts in sky!"

[@cookaboorra]

very well done! Iknew just a little part of this scenario. Thank you again

[@stansbornak8116]

I think I saw a documentary about this featuring a certain military figure named Belushi!

[@epramos6800]

"Oh look, a baby 🐺 wolf!"

[@johnlepant6953]

It could be as simple as Capt. Nishino knew the waters at the Elwood Refinery. Rather than revenge, it may have simply been an enterprising captain using knowledge he had to his best advantage. ;-)

[@stevecarey2030]

No, he was really mad about the cactus thing. Supposedly he had one of his crew ejected out the torpedo tube for calling him captain cactus ass.

[@haenselundgretel654]

Wow! How you tell those stories is sooooo cool! With all the pictures and videos it's easily imaginable and a whole movie arises in my head.

[@brandonfront143]

Mark i love your videos and just wanted to say that i think it is amazing the amount of archival footage you find that matches your subject matter to a T. Keep up the amazing work sir.

[@actioncom2748]

I'm laughing at the fact the guy who bombarded America literally had a burr up his keister about us. Lol!

[@frankandree62]

A definite case of the "Red Ass " for sure.

[@KPearce57]

And they hurt more coming out than going in.

[@pigracer_4524]

Me: Has 4 essays to complete Also me when I see Mark made a new upload: I've got time

[@Mis-AdventureCH]

Yup. 5 essays and a bio test to study for, LOL!

[@localenterprisebroadcastin5971]

😂😂 there’s always time for good historians 👍 especially mark

[@daviddominguez7629]

not going to lie, having Mark in the background while studying organic chem is helpful lol

[@Mr_Fancypants]

@@daviddominguez7629 no it isn't

[@daviddominguez7629]

Mr. Fancypants for me it is. Having something in the background with talking helps me focus.Just the way I study. May not be for everyone.

[@seanstipsky9473]

Mark Felton Productions Very good, comprehensive documentary!!! I'm a new fan of all your vids and learn a lot of details that have been left out of big budget docs. Thank-you!!

[@warnerjohnson1338]

Jolly thorough research, Mark. Carry on!

[@thorin1045]

So, the Los Angeles motto for the was: Panic and Keep Shooting!

[@sirclarkmarz]

LAPD has adopted that motto.

[@IanP1963]

…...keep shouting more like lol !!!!

[@blitzy3244]

I thought they fired tracer rounds to light up the sky to see silhouettes?

[@sophiaschier-hanson4163]

They should sell knock-off Keep Calm and Carry On gear that says that in their airport gift shops.

[@martinsgakke]

Remarkably similar to russian sailors reacting to phantom japanese torpedo boats

[@zoompt-lm5xw]

This raid was not only the first attack on us shores in ww2. It was also the first scare of "lights on the skies" i.e. UFOs Late 1941 and early 1942 was quite an epoch

[@MelonHead887]

This is correct. Well documented UFO sighting was the actual cause of the "battle of LA." Of course Felton is not about to "go there."

[@cleanerben9636]

"muh alions" Yeah right

[@ENiceGeo]

@@MelonHead887 Well, he did make a video on UFO incident in the UK before. Britain's Roswell Incident - Rendlesham Forest 1980

[@ericmcquiston9473]

Thanks for another very informative video Mark ! keep up the great work.

[@arwahsapi]

Top notch documentary as always! Thanks!

[@rickhalabrin7783]

I believe there was a " Documentary " film that was released in 1979 directed by Steven Spielberg with a cast that included Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, John Candy, Christopher Lee, Tim Matheson, Toshiro Mifune, and Robert Stack I'm sorry Mark but I just couldn't resist

[@Thirdbase9]

Coming to a History Channel near you soon.

[@alswann2702]

@Dennis Moore John Wayne refused to play General Stillwell for the same reason.

[@StutleyConstable]

I am pretty sure Captain William 'Wild Bill' Kelso downed at least fifteen Japanese Zeros attempting to attack John Wayne's home near Hollywood, California that night. He is also noted as the only US Army Airman to singlehandedly capture a Japanese submarine and force the crew to sail him to their home island in a daring, yet ill-fated invasion of the Japanese Empire. Sadly, Captain Kelso's fate is unknown, though his bravery can never be disputed.

[@mcnudde]

"I'm Captain Wild Bill Kelso and don't you forget it!"

[@CanadairCL44]

"We've got to find a way to make these things smaller"!

[@AllahDoesNotExist]

What

[@Mrfrenchdeux]

"I'm from Ottumwa, Iowa!"

[@joekurtz8303]

Who said it was War Nerves!!??

[@kixigvak]

Yet another great one from Mark Felton. My great-aunt was at Fort Stevens Oregon when it was shelled by a sub. Big holes on the beach, nothing else.

[@walter6629]

Always something I never heard of before on here !! Great work

[@darthslackus499]

Japan: "We shall invade America! The code name for this operation: Sony"

[@sneeki8082]

you mean hentai

[@Klee99zeno]

Operation Playstation

[@Blei1986]

More like: China - Operation Paid-off-democrats

[@brandonwang4270]

@@Blei1986 More like: Russia: Paid Off Republicans

[@Blei1986]

@@brandonwang4270 everyone is paying off everyone.... BUT only china is able to do it at a level like this. Russia... pfah ! These guys were stronk 60 years ago.... seems like you're still stuck in that timeline to believe they could harm the US. Stop believing obvious democrat desinformation.

[@TheNewsDepot]

The aliens must have thought us adorable for believing our lead and steel ammo would do anything to their ships.

[@theknave1915]

Scuffed the paint on one. They're still mad about that.

[@TheNewsDepot]

@@theknave1915 Which explains why their not talking to us.

[@andyman8630]

@@theknave1915 their vehicles are platinum plated then laser treated so as literally nothing can touch them - a 'repelling' layer results on the hull and literally nothing physical can penetrate it (directed energy weapons can)

[@ChrisPBacon-jl7oc]

@@andyman8630 want some koolaid, the best stuffs in Jones town

[@justarandomtechpriest1578]

I mean there are instances of UFO being damaged by said lead and steel ammo

[@10OZDuster]

..I can't help but say Mark Felton is the Best !!

[@andreibogorodski3979]

American gunner: "what are we shooting at?!" American loader: "I don't know but keep shooting!" The next day: USA the first nation to bomb itself

[@Mikalent]

Well, at least unlike the UK, we didn't invade our own country after getting turned around in fog.

[@burningnapalm4436]

CMDR Mikalent Didnt the Romans attack and burn their own city?

[@philipbair4795]

You succeeded in offending some Americans in the replies it seems

[@markm204]

@@Mikalent I never heard of that

[@anasevi9456]

@@philipbair4795 not really, i am an aussie and havent seen it much. But then again you are probably a californian living in a soybubble pumped with self hatred.

[@dannywelch3065]

Legit laughed out loud at the congratulations to aliens, got me in trouble at work. Great video!

[@HateTheIRS]

Danny Welch you good now

[@azkrouzreimertz9784]

asked for a longer documentary, two days later a longer documentary gets posted. thank you!

[@MarkFeltonProductions]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@zibabird]

Wow, fantastic information. Thank you, shared.

[@PUAlum]

I'm so happy to have stumbled onto your KZbin page. I grew up hearing about the great LA Air Raid from older neighbors. My family lived in the hills above LA's harbor (San Pedro) and one old neighbor (A WW1 vet) loved telling me and my elementary school friends about the raid. I'm looking forward to checking out your other videos. Thanks so much!! All the best.

[@bezahltersystemtroll5055]

who was responsible for the raid in their opinion?

[@bezahltersystemtroll5055]

@@MrDaiseymay the UFO :)

[@cyberpimp29]

I remember being a sophmore in high school and arguing with my older cousin (whom was student teaching history at the time) about this incident. He didnt believe me and I couldnt find my source...

[@dragoonTT]

That's OK. I commented about Axis activities in North America during WWII and was called a liar. Meh, if you don't want to believe me, no skin off my back.

[@RidinDirtyRollinBurnouts]

usually referred to as the battle of LA

[@randomcoyote8807]

I visited Fort Stevens, in Oregon, a few years ago... that will be an interesting addition to this series. Thanks, Dr. Felton, for these amazing snippets of history!

[@Tygor9000]

I grew up near there. Been there three times. About time for another trip.

[@hobofactory]

Been there a few times as well. Definitely an interesting place to visit. There is at least one other lesser-known installation (I believe it was a radar site) 30-60 minutes south of Fort Stevens, although it doesn’t have the story of having been shelled.

[@tracerxrider]

Battery Russell is a great WWI/II site.

[@daredare4323]

the shells from the sub. landed 1/2 mile south of battery russle. you can drive to it. there is a marker to show the spot shells landed. ft stevens cannons did not fire back. they did not want to give away their positions. i live very near this area.

[@hobofactory]

Dare Dare there’s some discussion whether it was as simple as not wanting to give away their position. The cannons were also quite dated by the standards of the day, and may not have had sufficient range to hit the sub even if there was a desire to. If they did have sufficient range, it would have been just barely, and if the sub moved away and realized how quickly they’d gotten out of range, they’d have learned the limits of the coastal defenses, learned their positions, and could have resumed bombardment but more accurately and with relative impunity.

[@collieclone]

I really appreciate that we can all profit from your research, Mark. This is yet another example of a quirky side story that got lost in the fog of war in our history books. Thanks again.

[@travisreed1730]

I would NEVER had BELIEVED it, if I didn't HEAR it...but THEN AGAIN, I say that EVERYTIME I watch your channel. You ALWAYS teach me sometime new.

[@2007MXV]

Steven Spielberg’s brilliant movie 1941 was a comic look at this hysteria,

[@espada9]

Captain Wild Bill Kelso is a national hero!

[@gravesclayton3604]

"Where Horry Wood?" "Rite Cheer" "Yer lookin' at im" "Jesus Palamino. a Natzi!" Slim Pickens was the best! The "Ninja Christmas Trees" were also hilarious!

[@3dfreak2000]

Horriwoooo!

[@pagamenews]

@@gravesclayton3604 The compass on the German-built U-boat was defective, but they found one inside a Cracker Jack box....which Slim Pickens promptly swallowed.

[@tommypetraglia4688]

10:58 Something sexy about a ruby-lipped woman in a civil defense air raid helmet

[@cliffniiranen1044]

I wonder how she got promoted?

[@Supernaut2000]

Hey that’s my Mom!

[@meninao5916]

She reminds that girl in Pearl Harbor movie

[@kimi8638]

@@Supernaut2000 lol

[@RandallFlaggNY]

Dirty perv. And a sticky keyboard too....

[@robsan52]

My mother worked at the North American Inglewood B25 factory. This 'attack' was a very bizarre event and there was 'something' tens of thousands of people saw as it drifted across the sky. Its worth looking up the 'Battle of L.A.' online.

[@knighttuttrupriprock9733]

These are all so well done, just love em.

[@Roller_Ghoster]

I've learned more from these videos during the Covid 19 lockdown than I ever would have learnt at school. Thanks Mark!

[@lancegoodthrust546]

I live in Beaverton, Oregon. An hour's drive east of Seaside where one of the Japanese submarines shelled Ft. Stevens.

[@Martmns]

Another excellent, informative video! Way to go Mark Felton! Yours is absolutely THE best channel on KZbin!

[@covid208]

your mom

[@RiwenX]

Awesome video, awesome channel. Keep up the great work.