Japan attacked Santa Barbara too? After #pearlharbor@ritzcarlton #worldwar2 #santabarbara

Where the lives nearby, you got the Ritz Carlton, one of the fanciest hotels in California, right here. But on February 23, 1942, this was the only attack on continental U.S. soil by the Japanese. Right here? Right here. There was a Japanese I-17 submarine right, right about where those structures were. And they opened fire on the Elwood oil field here. They got a pump house, they got a derrick, and it was mayhem. The people in Goleta were up on their roofs trying to see the submarine. And you know, this wasn't that long after Pearl Harbor. A couple months. So they knew that something was coming, and here it came. And so it was amazing. And the fact that the Japanese strategy really was to bomb the West Coast somehow and spread fear on the West Coast. Well, it worked.