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» Brent Sedo - Balloon bombs away

I always thought this was one of the goofier stories to come out of WW II, although not, I suppose, for the people who were killed.

Apparently in Canada, a balloon was found as far east as Manitoba - some 9,000 kilometres from Tokyo.

However, this article says only 300 were thought to have actually landed in North America.

http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-2003-127...

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» Christopher Eger - Balloon bombs away

In response to Balloon bombs away posted by BrentSedo:

Thats just the thing....no one really knows! Robert Mikesh, in his book "Japan's World War II Balloon bomb Attacks", (pub 1978) cites a War Department report "Although only 285 of the 9,000 bomb-laden balloons the Japanese launched were documented to have reached North America, experts believe that probably close to 1,000 made it across the Pacific"....leaving several hundred unaccounted for

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