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TITLE
Headline, "ARMY SAYS S.F. RAID REAL; JAPS LAND NEAR MANILA"
 
DESCRIPTION
The San Francisco Examiner
December 9, 1941

"ARMY SAYS S.F. RAID REAL; JAPS LAND NEAR MANILA"
"Isle 60 Miles Off Cavite Navy Base Reported Captured"
"Not a 'Test,' Say Officers; Woman Shot in Blackout"
"42 German and Italian Aliens of S.F. Held"
"Tremendous Blow to U.S. Claimed by Japan"
"Navy Hard Hit; FDR to Bare Details"
 
CONTEXT
"Scare headlines" and magazine articles describing catastrophic invasions, sinkings and acts of espionage that had never taken place reflected the general fear current on the West Coast and in Hawaii in the wake of Pearl Harbor.
 
CREDIT
The San Francisco Examiner
 
DATE
December 9, 1941