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McKFC OP t1_j78jsks wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL in early 1942 the Battle of Los Angeles was fought, with an hour-long barrage of anti-aircraft artillery fired from the city against a perceived Japanese invasion. The cause: a stray weather balloon. by McKFC

Per the 1949 report, "once the firing started, imagination created all kinds of targets in the sky and everyone joined in"

The event was the inspiration for Spielberg's third big film, 1941, an uneven but unjustly maligned war satire written by a pre-Back to the Future Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis.

Edit: the scene in question

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