During WWII, Japan developed an unexpected weapon to use against the U.S.
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The only mainland casualties of enemy fire. Not a bad full-time result. 96k- 6 to the U.S.A. Winner stays on? Asks Joe steel.( or as his Russian mates like to call him, Komrade Stalin)
Bansai
5 person died… so much cry
Whole japanese city burnt and destroyed… ohh don't dare to confront with superpower.
It can do harm but its not a nuclear bomb
First guy: “They launched 1000 balloons.”
Second guy: “They launched thousands of balloons.”
Me: “Ok.”
I feel so bad for the family :(. I wish WWII never happened
They teached this to us in school today
The Japanese balloons were made with what they call "Kozo" bark paper, which is inner bark from a mulberry tree. Very useful for making doors and windows for centuries. In WWII The Japanese had many women sewing this paper into balloons. They were filled with hydrogen, and floated up to the jet stream, which reliably runs from Japan to Canada and the United States. Kept secret by the U.S. government during the war, for morale purposes. The University of Iowa today has a section in their art department that still makes quality kozo paper. And supposedly, a sample from a WWII Japanese balloon is in their library.
I think at least one of these made it to Michigan.
it sounds like an Easter hunt with terrible prize
Hard to compare with atomic bombs
Big foot found one and he went kaboom!
Ah yes the discovery of the jet stream was Japans greatest aviation achievement in my opinion
So japan successfully taken the war to america and killed few people.
I heard about these years ago, and that they found these balloon bombs as far inland as Michigan, but I am sure that the vast majority of them are either in the pacific northwest, Canada, and the Pacific Ocean. The reason it was covered up was so the Japanese would not know that they worked. Any word of success getting back to Japan, and they would have sent more our way. The Japanese figured that the US would be outraged and send it all over the radio and newspapers, but all they got was silence, so they moved away from what they believed was a very expensive failed project. Very smart move not telling the public about this, at least not until wars end. Sucked for the poor people who happened across them, and still pose a danger to this day.
1 million deaths don’t sound as bad as a few identified victims… it’s more personal when it’s a smaller number I guess
Tq america cause bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Clash of clans
All the leftover balloons are duds anyway
For all we know it killed more people.. natives or lone hunters at that time or just everyone in its vicinity and no one lived to speak about it.
I live in Oregon. There are still many balloon bombs unaccounted for where I live and because they are rusty radars can’t detect them. Super unsettling that one could likely be under my house or even my school. God help us all
I remember a couple Forest workers found an unexploded balloon bomb back in 2014 near my hometown of Lumby British Columbia. They had to call in the bomb squad and exploded it with c4 right there where it sat.
Imagine watching the kill cam of the balloon traveling across the sea just to squad wipe your entire family 🤡
I'm reading about the family that died in Alma Katsu's The Fervor. I googled Fu-Go bombs, and found that this actually happened. That this family was real.
I never learned about this stuff and about the Japanese internment camps in school.
There's so much we weren't taught in school, and it's happening again today. So many people are scared of history, not understanding that history unacknowledged repeats itself.
So sad.
When he married his wife (12 age ?)
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