Kamikaze - ballast gear and 5lb incendiary bomb for 'divine wind' balloon

[Dave Kearton]

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Cheers

Dave Kearton

[Gene S. Park]

One or two of those balloons landed near Molson, WA setting stubble fields
afire during the fall of 1945.

I was a wee lad then living at Molson (east of Oroville, WA and Osoyoos, BC)
on my granddad's ranch, of which, the back fence was the Canadian line.

Gene


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[Frank from Deeetroit]

"Gene S. Park" > wrote in message
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> One or two of those balloons landed near Molson, WA setting stubble fields
> afire during the fall of 1945.
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> I was a wee lad then living at Molson (east of Oroville, WA and Osoyoos,
> BC) on my granddad's ranch, of which, the back fence was the Canadian
> line.
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> Gene
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One of these landed in the Livonia/Farmington Hills area, a suburb of
Detroit. I cannot find any newspaper articles from the day on the landing.
To my knowlege, no one was injured and no device exploded.

[Fabio]

"Frank from Deeetroit" >
> "Gene S. Park" > wrote in message
>>> One or two of those balloons landed near Molson, WA setting stubble
>>> fields
>> afire during the fall of 1945.
>>>> Gene
>> "Dave Kearton" > wrote in message
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Cheers
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>>> Dave Kearton
> One of these landed in the Livonia/Farmington Hills area, a suburb of
> Detroit. I cannot find any newspaper articles from the day on the
> landing. To my knowlege, no one was injured and no device exploded.


You can't find any article. USA government asked newspapers not to publish
any news on the baloons and their effects.
Japan having no feed back thought it was a failure and dropped the action.
ciao
Fabio

[Gene S. Park]

Many of the balloons arrived over Canada and the US after the war had ended.
The government censored the news under the guise of the bombs were top
secret. There apparently were a few exceptions of local reportage because
local witnesses had spread the news.

Gene

"Fabio" > wrote in message
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> "Frank from Deeetroit" >
>> "Gene S. Park" > wrote in message
>>>> One or two of those balloons landed near Molson, WA setting stubble
>>>> fields
>>> afire during the fall of 1945.
>>>>> Gene
>>> "Dave Kearton" > wrote in message
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> Cheers
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>>>> Dave Kearton
>> One of these landed in the Livonia/Farmington Hills area, a suburb of
>> Detroit. I cannot find any newspaper articles from the day on the
>> landing. To my knowlege, no one was injured and no device exploded.
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> You can't find any article. USA government asked newspapers not to publish
> any news on the baloons and their effects.
> Japan having no feed back thought it was a failure and dropped the action.
> ciao
> Fabio
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