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Intercontinental Balloon Missile

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on January 28, 2004 by Ian Pattinson

In the Second World War, the Japanese released bomb carying balloons into the Jet Stream, which then carried them to the US and Canada. Nearly 9000 were released, and one of the bombs accounted for the only direct war fatalities in the USA.

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The axishistory site on the balloons

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