Episode 12 ~ Goleta in World War II: The Ellwood Bombardment and the Refugio Prisoner of War Camp (September 27, 2023)

Movie Recommendations:

• The Other Woman

• The Land Girls

• Das Boot

• 1941

• Grease 2

Show Recommendations:

• BBC's Ghosts (Please enjoy The Captain being iconic for 6 minutes.)

• Home Fires

Book Recommendations:

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (Read for free on Libby thanks to your local punk-ass book jockeys!)

Podcast Recommendations:

• Campu

Episode Sources:

• World War II Major Events Timeline, PBS

• Did Americans Really Not Know About FDR's Disability? by Cecil Adams, Washington City Paper (August 17, 2016)

• Wikipedia: Liberty Ship, Fireside Chats, The Bombardment of Ellwood, Mescaltitlan Island, The Battle of Los Angeles, German Prisoners of War in the United States

• Goleta History: Ellwood Gas Station, Mescaltitlan Island, Goleta's POW Camp

• Santa Barbara History Japanese Attack, See California

• 5 Attacks on US Soil During World War II by Evan Andrews, History (August 23, 2023)

• Isla Vista, Barbara Reaume

• Monument to the Bombardment of Ellwood, Atlas Obscura

• Isla Vista: Hisory and Hope by Drew Reed, Medium (May 29, 2014)

• World War II's Bizarre 'Battle of Los Angeles' by Evan Andrews, History (February 23, 2017)

• Old tower last sign of POW camp, Lompoc Record (May 17, 2021)

• Debunking a Persistent Myth of WWII: The German Army's Hands Were Not Clean, US Holocaust Museum, Medium (February 21, 2018)