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TopicIn WW2 Japan launched over 9,300 balloon bombs at the US. Only 1 did damage
UnfairRepresent
02/04/21 5:56:34 PM
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The idea was to be undectable by radar and do massive destruction. At the time they were the longest range strike in history but they were near impossible to aim and easily effected by bad weather. Only 300 were confirmed to reach America, with sightings in Mexico and Canada.



All of these landed in the middle of no where. However a pregnant lady and 5 children found one of them in Oregon. One of the kids kicked it and they all died. Only 4 of which died instantly.

These were the only US causalities of WW2 on US Soil.

Japan considered the entire enterprise a gigantic failure due to the time, money and resources they put into the project. One of the aims was to damage morale in America due to psychologically knowing they were danger in their own homes, which never happened.

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