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The Battle of Los Angeles: The History of the Notorious False Alarm That Caused an Artillery Barrage over California During World War II , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 81min

All Americans are familiar with the “day which will live in infamy”. At 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor, the advanced base of the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet, was ablaze. It had been smashed by aircraft launched by the carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. All eight battleships had been sunk or badly damaged, 350 aircraft had been knocked out, and more than 2,000 Americans lay dead. Indelible images of the USS Arizona exploding and the USS Oklahoma capsizing and floating upside down have been ingrained in the American conscience ever since. In less than an hour and a half, the Japanese had almost wiped out America’s entire naval presence in the Pacific.Roosevelt addressed Congress and the nation the following day, giving a stirring speech seeking a declaration of war against Japan. Congress voted overwhelmingly in support of an immediate declaration of war: 82-0 in the Senate and 388-1 in the House. Churchill had said that Britain would declare war “within the hour” if Japan attacked America. There was no way the British were going to forget the support they had already received from Roosevelt. Britain was at war with Japan the same day. The other Axis powers quickly followed suit, with Germany and Italy declaring war on America and vice versa by December 11.Today, Pearl Harbor is remembered in several important ways. First, it is widely viewed as a turning point for World War II, and if Hitler’s attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941 had not already sealed his fate, his declaration of war against America that December did. Beyond that, the day provided some important pointers for how the war would pan out in the Pacific. Japan’s conduct of battle was exposed as aggressive but inflexible, and its pilots proved brave but undisciplined. The Americans, derisively portrayed as decadent and weak, showed they could and would fight. In the immediate aftermath, Americans immediately rallied around the flag, invoking ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim D Johnston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/126388/bk_acx0_126388_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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