Never heard of this...
Oh ya.
I have read that they actually thought and tested to send fleas infected with the plague.
Release them when they got over here.
The problem they had was it is so cold up there it wouldnt work.
German U-boats routinely patrolled just outside the 12 mile international limit during WW2 off the East Coast. The German navy could see the city lights of Atlantic City, Boston, Miami, New York etc., out of their periscopes.
People living in the West know about it. Kids at a Sunday School picnic in Oregon found a bomb and it exploded. There’s a memorial where they died.
But I didn’t know they launched that many balloons or that they were that big.
I’m listening to the “Gray Wolf” book about WW II. I did not realize how ineffective the German V1 and V2 rockets were. They killed on average 2-3 people each at enormous expense.
Battle of Los Angeles - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Battle_of_Los_Angeles
The incident occurred less than three months after the U.S. entered World War II in response to the Imperial Japanese Navy’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor ...
Bombardment of Ellwood - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Bombardment_of_Ell...
The Bombardment of Ellwood during World War II was a naval attack by a Japanese submarine against United States coastal targets near Santa Barbara, ...
Balloons That Bombed : 49 Years Ago, Japanese Explosives ...https://www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-1994-01-16...
Jan 16, 1994 — The balloons, about 70 feet high and 30 feet in diameter, were launched from Japan in November, 1944. The idea, according to Tom Crouch, ...
World War II’s Bizarre ‘Battle of Los Angeles’ - HISTORYhttps://www.history.com › news › world-war-iis-bizarre...
May 6, 2020 — ... a torrent of anti-aircraft fire in the skies over Los Angeles. ... Japanese aircraft flying in formation, bombs falling and enemy.
The Battle of Los Angeles - Cal@170 by the California State ...https://cal170.library.ca.gov › february-24-1942-the-ba...
On the evening of February 24, 1942, an anti-aircraft barrage of more than 1,440 rounds is launched at what is initially thought to be a Japanese aerial ...
The Mysterious Battle of Los Angeles, 1942http://www.laalmanac.com › history
Searchlights and anti-aircraft fire over Los Angeles, February 25, 1942. ... a Japanese submarine conducted what became the only bombing of the continental ...
I hadn’t know a sub shelled OR, although I’d known one did Santa Barbara. And I’d forgotten, if I’d ever known, that a sub launched plane bombed OR. Japan certainly knew it was possible and made plans, plus had all the equipment ready, for more significant sub launched air strikes. They had 3 of the biggest subs ever, pre 60s boomers, with 3 planes each. One plan was to bomb Panama Canal locks. Another plan, for a softer target, was to drop biowarfare bombs with bubonic plague somewhere on the west coast. They’d proven those bombs worked on the Chinese. They could have dropped that before our nukes dropped.
A lot of people are unaware that in February of 1942 ta Japanese submarine shelled an oil refinery on the California coast and in September of that year, a float plane launched from a Jap sub dropped some incendiary bombs in Oregon hoping to start a forest fire.
German UBoats sink one of our merchant ships in the Gulf of Mexico:
https://stories.usatodaynetwork.com/uboatsinthegulf/