Posted on 07/14/2024 8:04:47 PM PDT by lowbridge
I have heard of Japanese projects to attack the American mainland, but, iirc, there were balloon bombs launched by the Japanese, supposedly to cause forest fires in the Western US.
Tragically, six civilian Americans on a picnic in May 45 were killed when one of these Fu-Go bombs went off near them.
IIRC, they had found it in a forest, believing it to be a dud, and wanted to lift it off the ground. I have no clue why the unfortunates didn’t run and alert the UXO department.
Then it went off. May the six Americans who were killed by the blast rest in peace✝️
But bombers with a range of 4,500 miles, i.e. from Brittany, the westernmost part of occupied Europe, to the American East coast? And that is one way.
I am no expert on World War Two, but iirc, bombers had much shorter ranges in those days, even the dreaded Avro Lancaster.
Furthermor, afaik, American radar was so good after 1943, that such a German bomber would definitely have been intercepted.
It sure is and it’s just scratching the surface.
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