Here's an awesome map if you want to go siren hunting yourself. At 7:18 pm on the night of February 25, lights and flares were seen in the sky near defense plants in Los Angeles, triggering a four-hour alert. Fallout shelter pamphlets from the 1960s indicate. The sirens were last used during a test in 1985. An old air raid siren still stands at the corner of Race Street and Park Avenue in San Jose, Calif., photographed on Thursday, Aug. not but 60 miles outside LA, we werent taught it was to avoid fallout. Hanley says about 75 percent are still around, 'pretty much abandoned in place,' although they're occasionally torn down during construction projects-the one at Sherman Way and Deering in Canoga Park was removed just a few months ago for the construction of an Orange Line parking lot, according to his website. Would you say that air raid (or civilian danger) sirens are the most terrifying. The sirens actually date originally to World War II, when they were put up to warn about Japanese attacks, but they proliferated during the Cold War and there were ultimately about 225 within LA city limits, according to Hanley (they were paid for by the feds and operated by the LA County Sheriff's Department). ( The information supplied follows :) The requirement for a bomb alarm system was first expressed by the Air Force in Operational Support Requirement No. Then, early in the morning of February 25th, radar returns picked up. The first air raid siren went off after an alert was given at 7:18 PM (Pacific Time). The AAF kept its pursuit planes on the ground, preferring to await indications of the scale and direction of any attack before committing its limited fighter force. Antiaircraft batteries were alerted at 0215 and were put on Green Alertready to firea few minutes later. Did you know - The Battle of Los Angeles is the name given by contemporary news agencies to a sighting of one or more unidentified flying objects which took place from late February 24 to early Februin which eyewitness reports of an unknown object or objects.

THE AIR RAID OF LOS ANGELES LECTURE AND SLIDE SHOW. Radars picked up an unidentified target 120 miles west of Los Angeles. The Battle Of Los Angeles Re-Creation Febru(Page One) Page One Page Two Cartoon See video's of the event. KCRW talks to 'siren hunter' Dennis Hanley, who has spent years finding, mapping, and photographing the sirens-he remembers hearing one being tested at 10 am on the last Friday of every month when he was growing up in the Valley. John Horrigan lectures about the 1942 Air Raid of Los Angeles. For Cold War relics in the middle of the city, you can hike up to San Vicente Mountain Park to see the old Nike-Ajax supersonic anti-aircraft missile launch site, or you can just look up wherever you're standing-the city is littered with neglected old civil defense sirens that were supposed to warn the populace of an incoming nuclear attack.

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