Long before a suspected Chinese spy balloon was seen over Montana, Japan launched nearly 10,000 bomb-bearing balloons toward the United States during World War II. One killed six people.
Farmers, ranchers and others began reporting balloon incidents. They heard explosions or found small holes in the ground with metal fragments nearby, or partially inflated balloons in the scrub brush.What they were seeing was Japan’s effort to bring the war to the U.S. mainland by launching bomb-bearing balloons onto the Pacific jet stream. Japan launched nearly 10,000 such balloons from Nov. 3, 1944, to April 1945. Around 300 of them landed in the United States.
The only casualties from those attacks came from the tragic discovery on May 5, 1945, of an unexploded balloon bomb by small group on a church outing in the Gearhart Mountain area of Southern Oregon. The Rev. Archie Mitchell and his wife, Elyse Mitchell, of Bly, Ore., took five children with them. While the reverend parked the car, Elyse and the children called to him that they had found a strange object in the woods. He shouted a warning, but it was too late.
Mikesh said that, technically, the bombs were successful, but the results were minimal because the balloons couldn’t be controlled at the end. Plus they were launched over the winter and not in the dry season, when wildfires might have expanded the damage. “They didn’t have that luxury,” Mikesh said. “They needed to launch them when they could.”
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