But as paper bags go, this one was exceptional. In its prior service, the carefully crafted balloon had carried a Japanese bomb more than 5,000 miles across the Pacific—one of thousands intended ...

During World War II, Japan launched an eerie and little-known campaign—balloon bombs sent across the Pacific to strike American soil. These silent weapons caused real damage and tragedy, including the ...

The attacks prompted the Japanese to seek a way to bring the war to the United States. It took two years before they found the right instrument: a new weapon, the balloon bomb. From November of 1944 ...

It’s a balloon. In a recent speech, Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu claimed Russian air defences had shot down 37 Ukrainian balloons since Russia widened its war on Ukraine starting in ...

The bomb had been carried by a balloon designed by the Imperial Japanese Army, one of almost 9,000 silken, hydrogen-filled balloons laden with explosives that Japan launched toward North America ...

He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs. By Clay Risen Joe Harris, who as a sergeant with an all-Black infantry ...