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Old May 17th 07, 01:56 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Frank from Deeetroit
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Default Kamikaze - ballast gear and 5lb incendiary bomb for 'divine wind' balloon


"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.

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


"Dave Kearton" wrote in message
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Cheers

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.