Panic on the Pacific : how America prepared for a West Coast invasion / Bill Yenne.

"The aftershocks of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor were felt keenly all over America-the war in Europe had hit home. But nowhere was American life more immediately disrupted than on the West Coast, where people lived in certain fear of more Japanese attacks. From that day until the end...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yenne, Bill, 1949- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Regnery History, [2016]
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Pacific States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Japan.
Civil defense > Pacific States.
Pacific States > History > 20th century.
Physical Description:xxi, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
How America prepared for a West Coast invasion
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Three states on the eve of war
  • The General : John Lesesne DeWitt
  • An army before dawn
  • DeWitt's army
  • A distant, vulnerable land
  • The sudden darkness of fear
  • The unthinkable realization
  • A theater of woeful shortages
  • The Japanese next door
  • The battle of the California coast
  • The spies next door
  • Into the cold uncertainty of a new year
  • In a climate of fear
  • The cactuses of Goleta
  • The battle of Los Angeles
  • The boss out here
  • Hidden in plane sight
  • Illusion in the Emerald City
  • The great Japanese offensive
  • The submarines return
  • Bringing the war ashore
  • The final blows came from the sky
  • The waning power of the boss
  • Pacific vision
  • Invasion day
  • The battle is joined
  • Beyond the first contact.