Ping.
The Canadians should send the bill to Tokyo.
I remember these balloons. Our teachers announced these bombs and instructed us to look for them. If we saw something in the sky we were to report it to our teachers.
Lucky for those forestry guys that they recognized its potential danger.
Canada Ping!
A shame that it had to be blown up.
I guess that may have been the official end of WW2 in N. America.
And I had no idea that a balloon bomb made it to Grand Rapids, Michigan! It has never been mentioned if that info is correct.
Someone in japan needs to apologize for this
I was hoping there would be a picture of it.
Apparently, the word “smithereens” is a highly technical term which means that “It blowed up real good.” :=)
They still give warnings in schools at some point about Japanese balloon bombs here in Nevada, but I don’t think any have been found in the state.
I think the Nevada Dept. of Wildlife still has some sort of information about their danger for hunters and hikers.
Something to think about, I guess. Hikers and hunters continue to find crashed airplanes in the Sierra range that the state hadn’t yet got on record of the location of the debris.
Thanks for the post.
May 5, 1945: Japanese Balloon Bomb Kills 6 in Oregon | WIRED
1945:: A Japanese balloon bomb kills six people in rural eastern Oregon. They are the only World War II U.S. combat casualties in the 48 states.
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I wonder if the Canadians bothered to contact the Japanese to see if they had any desire to repatriate their wandering warrior.
So. Did it, or did it not, produce excess yield beyond what could be explained by the known amount of C4? Was it the real deal? Or was it not?
Unless they have an answer to that, those Canuck cops are just flat-footed, negative archaeologists. Inquiring minds want to know.
One of them landed in Omaha, NE. There is a plaque on the wall of a building there commemorating it. It is in the Dundee area of town.