[LS]

Good points. In her “In Defense of Internment,” Michelle Malkin includes photocopies of FBI reports on Japanese spies IN CALIFORNIA. They were not just in Hawaii, and we were so concerned about an attack on the west coast that the Lockheed factory was entirely camouflaged to look like farm land. I went to school in classrooms that were pillboxes at UC Santa Barbara that at one time had guns pointing to the sea to repel the expected Japanese attack.

[Kozy]

My dad was stationed at Hickam Field 1936-1939 as an Army weatherman. Tough duty.
Well he told me of the Sunday morning, sound familiar?, when the Air Corp flew to the field dropping flour bags. He said that the soldiers were so hung over they couldn't get to their battle stations. Then on Dec 7th, the Japanese did the same thing with real bombs.
Probably just one of those forgotten exercises that really show how vulnerable we were,