February 25, 1942. Los Angeles gets itself on a war footing. Days after FDR’s Executive Order 9066 okays the round-up of American citizens, war jitters explode over the City of Angels. This epic Angry History episode explores The Battle of Los Angeles and the passionate Fort MacArthur reenactment that takes modern L.A. back to a time of fear and resilience.
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As war clouds gathered in May 1938, the U.S. Army Air Corps staged four days of war games on Long Island, and “bombed” a war factory in Farmingdale. Their goals: Prepare the civilian population to comply with blackout orders in the event of an attack, test anti-air defenses still in their infancy, and demonstrate that American fly-boys could meet any threat. It’s America’s first air raid drill, this week on Angry History…