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The WWII Balloon Bombs That Floated Across the Pacific
In the final years of World War II, Japan launched one of the strangest and most ambitious attacks in military history - ...
From where we sit today, it sounds like the craziest, most desperate attempt in wartime history: Japan, locked in battle with the U.S. on various Pacific islands, floats bombs on balloons over the ...
In 1944 the Japanese launched over 9,000 balloons with incendiary contents to be carried by high altitude winds eastward across the Pacific to North American. A Navy patrol plane spotted the first ...
They were on a fishing trip in the woods of Oregon’s Lake County: the Rev. Archie Mitchell, his wife, and five children. Joan Patzke, 11, spotted a strange white object. Another child tugged at the ...
Ukraine is attacking Russia with a new type of long-range drone: a balloon dropping mortar bombs from high altitude. These simple, low-cost devices are controlled by sophisticated off-the-shelf ...
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