Was not aware of that. Thanks for posting it.

Nice article. I knew about the balloon bombs, but I was not aware that there was any potential that someone could still stumble across one of those things.

The Japanese were the first to discover the jet stream, without which this kind of attack would have been impossible. We only discovered it when we tried to bomb over Japan, which made high altitude bombing ineffective and forced most of our B-29s to raid lower level at night.

The balloon bombs were a number of creative ideas by the Japanese, but the very good efforts to keep these attacks under wraps meant the Japanese thought they were ineffective and gave them up. Had they been increased and created large forest fires, it could have caused many deaths, but unless they really got lucky, wouldn't have disrupted industry significantly.

Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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Nice article. I knew about the balloon bombs, but I was not aware that there was any potential that someone could still stumble across one of those things.

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When I was working with a fly fishing lodge in British Columbia in the 2000's, the Guide and Outfitters Handbook had a warning and photos of balloon bombs.

Such an effective weapon that the us disnt know they existed until discovering the program in japanese records after the war.

From the people that brought us this kind of crap;


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https://www.oddee.com/item_96752.aspx

Weren't a schoolteacher and kids killed by one during WWII? I recall that the government knew and kept it quiet during the war.

I am pretty sure i read that we had no idea. Could be wrong though, its been a while.

CanyonAg77 said:

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Weren't a schoolteacher and kids killed by one during WWII? I recall that the government knew and kept it quiet during the war.

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https://www.wired.com/2010/05/0505japanese-balloon-kills-oregon/

Killed six people.

cbr said:

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Such an effective weapon that the us disnt know they existed until discovering the program in japanese records after the war.

From the people that brought us this kind of crap;


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https://www.oddee.com/item_96752.aspx

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Wanna know how I know you didn't bother to click on the link in the OP?

I'm guilty of that, too. Most of what I posted was covered in the link in the OP, which I finally read late last night.

CanyonAg77 said:

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I'm guilty of that, too.

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Moi, aussi ...