3 JUN--This Day in US Military History

2015-06-03T04:03:50-04:00

1943 – In Los Angeles, California, white U.S. Navy sailors and Marines clash for a second time with Latino youths in the Zoot Suit Riots.

About eleven sailors got off a bus and started walking along Main Street in Downtown Los Angeles. At some point they ran into a group of young Mexicans dressed in zoot suits and got in a verbal argument. The sailors stated that they were jumped and beaten by this gang of zoot suiters. The Los Angeles Police Department responded to the incident, many of them off-duty officers calling themselves the Vengeance Squad, who went to the scene “seeking to clean up Main Street from what they viewed as the loathsome influence of pachuco gangs.”

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June 3

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Response by Capt Seid Waddell made Jun 3 at 2015 4:05 AM

2015-06-03T04:05:42-04:00

Attitude adjustment.

Response by PO1 William "Chip" Nagel made Jun 3 at 2015 4:09 AM

2015-06-03T04:09:54-04:00

Now this is one I've heard about. A documentary (My Drug of Choice) that I watched once.

Response by PO1 John Miller made Jun 3 at 2015 4:24 AM

2015-06-03T04:24:04-04:00

The good old days, when Sailors and Marines weren't afraid to get into a drunken brawl to defend their honor (if that is indeed what actually happened, meaning that they were attacked first by the zoot suit gangs).

Response by Sgt Daniel V. made Jun 3 at 2015 5:21 AM

2015-06-03T05:21:37-04:00

This is hilarious. Go Navy, you bunch of drunken lovely bastards.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 3 at 2015 7:57 AM

2015-06-03T07:57:47-04:00

Are those members of the Army Air Corpse in that crowd of servicemen?