[Tell It Right]

Wildfires are something to think about today, it being the 80th anniversary of dropping Little Boy on Hiroshima. How is that related?

Because Japan launched about 9,000 Fu-Go incendiary balloon bombs intended to start tons of forest fires in the U.S. That's one reason I don't lose sleep over the A-bombs.

[packrat35]

Six killed in Oregon by Japanese bomb
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/May-5/six-killed-in-oregon-by-japanese-bomb

[packrat35]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1945-japanese-balloon-bomb-killed-six-americansfive-them-children-oregon-180972259/