California's Gold S03E9 World War II

Huell goes back in time to learn about two fascinating, yet obscure, California footnotes to World War II: a German-made crane which is the largest self-propelled floating crane berthed at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, and an incident in 1942 involving a Japanese submarine that shelled the oil field of Ellwood in Goleta in Santa Barbara County.
1993
Bud Miller Carlo Bottiani crane Debora Pelissaro Embarcadero Ranch German crane German-made crane Godwin Pelissaro Goleta Goleta Valley Historical Society Herman the German J.P. Jones Japanese submarine Joseph Streeter Justin Ruhge Long Beach Long Beach Naval Shipyard oil field Ruth Pratt Second World War World War II YD-171

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The question always was: why did they shell California anyway?