Word: cajon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center on the U.S. southern flank-the Los Angeles area. Here they had a strictly coastal job, all within range of naval guns (and therefore their invasion might take the air-land-sea character of British attacks in Libya). After seizing Los Angeles they would strike out for Saugus, Cajon and San Jacinto Passes, sealing the coastal strip, and again hold tight. (Development, since Homer Lea wrote, of the San Diego base would suggest the necessity of a flanking attack, perhaps through Lower California...