"On May 5, 1945, six picnickers were killed in Oregon when a balloon bomb they dragged from the woods exploded," according to the museum. "The U.S. government quickly publicized the balloon bombs ...

It took two years before they found the right instrument: a new weapon, the balloon bomb. From November of 1944 to April of 1945, the Japanese launched over 9,000 balloons armed with explosives into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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