Attacks on North America during World War II
On June 2, 1942 , a nine-minute air-raid alert, including at 9:22 pm a radio silence order applied to all radio stations from Mexico to Canada.
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Notes
- ^ The Shelling of Ellwood, The California State Military Museum, <http://www.militarymuseum.org/Ellwood.html>. Retrieved on 2007-12-09
- ^ Young, Donald J. Phantom Japanese Raid on Los Angeles Word War II Magazine, September issue 2003
- ^ The Battle of Attu—60 Years Later, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, <http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/ebooks/images/efd2929.pdf>. Retrieved on 9 February 2008
- ^ a b SENSUIKAN! — HIJMS Submarine I-26: Tabular Record of Movement, combinedfleet.com, <http://www.combinedfleet.com/I-26.htm>. Retrieved on 2007-12-09
- ^ Conn, Stetson; Engelman & Fairchild, Byron, “The Continental Defense Commands After Pearl Harbor”, Guarding the United States and its Outposts, Center of Military History, United States Army
- ^ Japanese Submarines on the West Coast of Canada, pinetreeline.org, <http://www.pinetreeline.org/rds/detail/rds99-34.html>. Retrieved on 2007-12-09
- ^ Wood, Clement (1932). The man who killed Kitchener; the life of Fritz Joubert Duquesne. New York: William Faro, inc.
- ^ Jonathan Wallace, Military Tribunals, spectacle.org, <http://www.spectacle.org/yearzero/tribunal.html>. Retrieved on 2007-12-09
- ^ Agents delivered by U-boat, uboatwar.net, <http://web.archive.org/web/20051104050405/http://www.uboatwar.net/1ufbkagents.htm>. Retrieved on 2007-12-09 (from internet archive)
- ^ W. A. Swanberg (1970), The spies who came in from the sea, vol. 21, American Heritage Magazine, <http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1970/3/1970_3_66.shtml>. Retrieved on 2007-12-09
- ^ Essex, James W. 2004. Victory in the St. Lawrence: the unknown u-boat war. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press
- ^ Michael Salvarezza & Christopher Weaver, On Final Attack, The Story of the U853, ecophotoexplorers.com, <http://www.ecophotoexplorers.com/u853.asp>. Retrieved on 2007-12-09
- ^ Shells at Aruba, Time Magazine, February 23, 1942, <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,884455,00.html>. Retrieved on 2007-12-09
- ^ Defense of the Western Hemisphere, The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco, <http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist9/aaf1.html>. Retrieved on 2007-12-09
- ^ California and the Second World War; The Battle of Los Angeles, The California State Military Museum, <http://www.militarymuseum.org/BattleofLA.html>. Retrieved on 2007-12-09
- ^ The Battle of Los Angeles, Virtual Museum of the City of San francisco, <http://www.sfmuseum.net/hist9/aaf2.html>. Retrieved on 2007-12-09
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See also
- Black Tom Explosion – Possible German sabotage in World War I
- Bell Island, the only location in North America to be subject to direct attack by German forces in World War II
- Weather Station Kurt
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Further reading
- Dobbs, Michael. Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America ISBN 0-375-41470-3 (2004)
- Duffy, J.P. TARGET: AMERICA, Hitler's Plan to Attack the United States, Praeger Publishers; PB: The Lyons Press (A Booklist review)
- Gimpel, Erich. Agent 146: The True Story of a Nazi Spy in America ISBN 0-312-30797-7 (2003)
- Griehl, Manfred. Luftwaffe over America: The Secret Plans to Bomb the United States in World War II ISBN 1-85367-608-X (2004)
- Horn, Steve (2005). The Second Attack on Pearl Harbor: Operation K And Other Japanese Attempts to Bomb America in World War II. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-59114-388-8.
- Mikesh, Robert C. Japan's World War II Balloon Bomb Attacks on North America, Smithsonian Institution Press, (1973)
- Kesich, Gregory D. (April 13, 2003), 1944: When spies came to Maine, Portland Press Herald, <http://travel.mainetoday.com/regions/da/spies.shtml>
- Webber, Bert. Silent Siege: Japanese Attacks Against North America in World War II, Ye Galleon Press, Fairfield, Washington (1984). ISBN 0-87770-315-9 (hardcover). ISBN 0-87770-318-3 (paperbound).
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External links
- American targets
- Japanese submarine attacks
- German Sabotage operations
- the bay area at war
- army responses
- Details of German secret agents landed in North America
- Red White Black & Blue - feature documentary about The Battle of Attu in the Aleutians during World War II
- Defense of Americas
- The Battle of the St. Lawrence
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