Red alert over bizarre North Korean plan to attack G20 summit with balloons filled chemical weapons
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2626855/posts
Japan’s World War II Balloon Bomb Attacks
http://greyfalcon.us/restored/Balloon1.htm
[Launched by Japanese school kids, balloons traveled across the Pacific]
“The balloons had been made by Japanese schoolgirls from paper and paste...”
http://www.texasalmanac.com/history/highlights/bombing/
“The balloon attack program was conceived by Major General Kusaba ...”
http://wiballoongroup.org/ventline/VentlineJanFeb10.pdf
On This Day: Japanese WWII Balloon Bomb Kills 6 in Oregon
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/May-June-08/On-this-Day—Japanese-WWII—Balloon-Bomb—Kills-Six-in-Oregon.html
“In a little-known 1944 Fu-Go campaign, Japan released between 9000 and ...”
[If I recall correctly from watching “Why We Fight”, Japanese students were also ordered to launch the balloon-bombs.]
Those crafty Nips. ;)
I heard on the History channel once than the Japanesse sent the Plague over here in some balloons.