Then l I went to another history museum, this one in Halifax NS CA, and they had one there (the frame was original and the fuse/payload was “re-created) and there was the whole story about fire balloons on the West Coast.
I do not understand the caginess, this long after the events.
One landed here in Farmington Hills, Michigan. I never knew that until a few years ago.
The Japs also tried to bomb us with the plague bacteria. They infested fleas and put them in clay pot canister, floated them in balloons but nothing came of it.
"I do not understand the caginess, this long after the events."
The "caginess" you cite is a genuine problem. The history of these events -- and many others on the East Coast, involving German attacks during World War II -- has been systematically downplayed by academic historians and by journalists who follow their lead.
I am at a loss to understand why.
The left (academia) is heavily invested in the belief that America is evil. They prefer to downplay anything that suggests otherwise.
One dropped in the Dundee area of Omaha, NE. There is a small brass plaque on the house nearest where it happened. It is also listed in the Smithsonian book about the balloon bombings. Nobody I have talked to about here in Omaha it knew about it.
I don’t think it is “caginess”. I think it is ignorance.
The gentleman in the next office from mine a few years ago, a Japanese person, was one of those who launched the fire balloons every day. It was his part of the war effort.
I might add that he told me all about it. I still know his name and the Japanese character for it but won’t divulge that here.