Posted on Feb 23, 2016
California in World War II: The Shelling of Ellwood
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Did you know on this day 1942 Japanese submarine fired upon the oil Refineries in Ellwood, California ?
California in World War II: The Shelling of Ellwood
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WWII World War Two
Military History
Navy
American History
Posted 9 y ago
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The commander of that submarine had visited Santa Barbara before the war and had been embarrassed when he slipped from a trail and fell into a ravine filled with cacti. He never forgot nor forgave the humiliation (I wish I could provide the provenance of that story, but I read it many years or decades ago)
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