 | WANTED!!!| Aircraft Requests Discuss WANTED!!! in the Aviation forums; Originally Posted by HealzDevo
Interesting idea the idea of the balloon bombs. Certainly a pre-Civil War or so idea ... |
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07-15-2005, 12:43 PM
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#31 | | Master of Ewes
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Originally Posted by HealzDevo Interesting idea the idea of the balloon bombs. Certainly a pre-Civil War or so idea turned into a modern WW2 idea. Ah, what might have been if that had been done. | i believe atleast one made it across, didn't do any damage though..........
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07-15-2005, 12:49 PM
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Originally Posted by HealzDevo Interesting idea the idea of the balloon bombs. Certainly a pre-Civil War or so idea turned into a modern WW2 idea. Ah, what might have been if that had been done. | i believe atleast one made it across, didn't do any damage though.......... | Several made it. One actually killed somone 
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07-15-2005, 12:52 PM
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#33 | | Master of Ewes
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07-15-2005, 01:03 PM
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#34 | | IP/Mech THE GREAT GAZOO
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Originally Posted by the lancaster kicks ass i can't help but wonder what they put on the death cirtificate........ | Death by Japanese Terrorist Balloon
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07-15-2005, 01:11 PM
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#35 | | the old Sage
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Country: | the balloon killed a familie on an outing in the forested hills above Brookings Oregon. I live approx 70 miles east of the coastline. there is a rather large article in the Brookings newpaper back during the war and it is brought up nearly every year with locals paying their respects to the familie monument and pieces of the balloon/explosives lie in the museum in the coastal town | |
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07-15-2005, 06:08 PM
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07-15-2005, 10:43 PM
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#37 | | the old Sage
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Country: | correction the familie was not killed at Lakeview but above Brookings on the coast where the monument lies. One local has written a book about the bomb/ballooon in very lenghty detail some years ago. | |
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07-16-2005, 12:16 PM
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07-16-2005, 12:24 PM
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#39 | | He who does not skim
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07-16-2005, 02:34 PM
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On March 10, 1945, one of the last paper balloons descended in the vicinity of the Manhattan Project's production site at the Hanford Site. The balloon landed on a power line that fed electricity to the building containing the nuclear reactor producing plutonium for the Nagasaki bomb, and shut the reactor down.
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09-10-2005, 11:40 AM
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