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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:05:53 PM EDT
[#1]
Damn. Crazy!
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:07:07 PM EDT
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Damn. A barroon bomb? Crazy! Wah haha Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:07:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Damn. Crazy! ror |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:07:43 PM EDT
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Tojo is one crafty bastard ! |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:08:10 PM EDT
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/05/130527-map-video-balloon-bomb-wwii-japanese-air-current-jet-stream/
On May 5, 1945, five children and local pastor Archie Mitchell's pregnant wife Elsie were killed as they played with the large paper balloon they'd spotted during a Sunday outing in the woods near Bly, Oregon—the only enemy-inflicted casualties on the U.S. mainland in the whole of World War II. |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:08:17 PM EDT
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Rut Row......
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:11:50 PM EDT
[#7]
Cool find
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:11:55 PM EDT
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First comment is funny.
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:13:09 PM EDT
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 About 9000 were launched to the U.S.    |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:14:47 PM EDT
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What we sent in return.
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:16:00 PM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryOurs was much moar betterer. 
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:18:57 PM EDT
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Does anyone know what the ring with the holes around it was for? They look like nozzles.
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:20:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ours was much moar betterer. Quote HistoryQuoted: Ours was much moar betterer. After they received it they started sending us nice Toyota Tundras.  |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:22:59 PM EDT
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One landed in Livonia, MI.
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:23:04 PM EDT
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Does anyone know what the ring with the holes around it was for? They look like nozzles. Coleman gas propane ring |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:23:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ours was much moar betterer. Quote HistoryQuoted: Ours was much moar betterer. It's nice to share |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:30:23 PM EDT
[#17]
Neat.
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:31:03 PM EDT
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Does anyone know what the ring with the holes around it was for? They look like nozzles. In the link I posted there is a video that describes the construction. It looks like they are part of the blowout plugs for the ballast system. |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:31:57 PM EDT
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Where the Hell is Lumby?
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:34:04 PM EDT
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Where the Hell is Lumby? Canada? |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:34:38 PM EDT
[#21]
I would not have recognized it as a balloon bomb and tried to dig it up.
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:38:02 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:38:33 PM EDT
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If I'm not mistaken, weren't they meant to start massive forest fires on the West coast?
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:40:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I would not have recognized it as a balloon bomb and tried to dig it up. That's what this guy did in 1945.  http://www.wired.com/2010/05/0505japanese-balloon-kills-oregon/ |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:43:14 PM EDT
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Cool find It is. Neat piece of history. |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:48:45 PM EDT
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for some reason I thought they were all accounted for.
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:50:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If I'm not mistaken, weren't they meant to start massive forest fires on the West coast? Yes, and it was mentioned in the article. IIRC, the Japanese didn't realize how wet the forests were in wintertime, and there was no significant risk of forest fire. |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:52:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: for some reason I thought they were all accounted for. I don't see how that would be remotely possible. Many are at the bottom of the ocean. Others are probably lost somewhere in massive American or Canadian forests or mountains. |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:53:28 PM EDT
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for some reason I thought they were all accounted for. Most of them would have landed in the middle of nowhere. |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 9:58:38 PM EDT
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IIRC, the Japanese didn't realize how wet the forests were in wintertime, and there was no significant risk of forest fire. Hah. Good luck getting a camp fire going in the Cascade range during a typical wet winter even with a zippo, five gallons of gas, kindling, three newspapers, and a boy scout. |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 10:00:10 PM EDT
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I don't see how that would be remotely possible. Many are at the bottom of the ocean. Others are probably lost somewhere in massive American or Canadian forests or mountains. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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for some reason I thought they were all accounted for. I don't see how that would be remotely possible. Many are at the bottom of the ocean. Others are probably lost somewhere in massive American or Canadian forests or mountains. Yeah, my bad. |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 10:00:44 PM EDT
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Betcha it could still go BOOM!
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Posted: 10/12/2014 10:04:35 PM EDT
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A lot of those little bastards made over.
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Posted: 10/12/2014 10:08:25 PM EDT
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Hah. Good luck getting a camp fire going in the Cascade range during a typical wet winter even with a zippo, five gallons of gas, kindling, three newspapers, and a boy scout. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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IIRC, the Japanese didn't realize how wet the forests were in wintertime, and there was no significant risk of forest fire. Hah. Good luck getting a camp fire going in the Cascade range during a typical wet winter even with a zippo, five gallons of gas, kindling, three newspapers, and a boy scout. My first thought when I read it. |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 10:09:39 PM EDT
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Some sightings.
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Posted: 10/12/2014 10:10:01 PM EDT
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Yeah, but where's DB?
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Posted: 10/12/2014 10:15:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A lot of those little bastards made over. http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/677/cache/balloon-bombs-map_67790_990x742.jpg |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 10:29:09 PM EDT
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My first thought when I read it. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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IIRC, the Japanese didn't realize how wet the forests were in wintertime, and there was no significant risk of forest fire. Hah. Good luck getting a camp fire going in the Cascade range during a typical wet winter even with a zippo, five gallons of gas, kindling, three newspapers, and a boy scout. My first thought when I read it. Haha I grew up in Southeast Alaska and used to say I couldnt light a forest fire with a road flare and a five gallon jerry jug
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Posted: 10/12/2014 10:34:45 PM EDT
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Something about these balloon bombs seems like such pussy coward shit to me.
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Posted: 10/12/2014 10:35:53 PM EDT
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Hah. Good luck getting a camp fire going in the Cascade range during a typical wet winter even with a zippo, five gallons of gas, kindling, three newspapers, and a boy scout. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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IIRC, the Japanese didn't realize how wet the forests were in wintertime, and there was no significant risk of forest fire. Hah. Good luck getting a camp fire going in the Cascade range during a typical wet winter even with a zippo, five gallons of gas, kindling, three newspapers, and a boy scout. They don't burn worth a shit 
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Posted: 10/12/2014 10:37:32 PM EDT
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Shit's crazy yo...
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Posted: 10/12/2014 10:39:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Something about these balloon bombs seems like such pussy coward shit to me. It was in retaliation of the Doolittle raid. |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 10:47:05 PM EDT
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Something about these balloon bombs seems like such pussy coward shit to me. Not excusing the Japanese but they were at war (with us) and if you want to think shit they did was cowardly this aint it. Hell ship, death marches, POW's as less than human that is where your anger should lie. We firebombed the fuck out of JP prior to atom weapons, the US just had better logistics and a way to deliver it post haste 
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Posted: 10/12/2014 10:48:43 PM EDT
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They don't burn worth a shit Quote HistoryQuoted:
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IIRC, the Japanese didn't realize how wet the forests were in wintertime, and there was no significant risk of forest fire. Hah. Good luck getting a camp fire going in the Cascade range during a typical wet winter even with a zippo, five gallons of gas, kindling, three newspapers, and a boy scout. They don't burn worth a shit 
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Posted: 10/12/2014 10:52:20 PM EDT
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Great training film on how they work:
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Posted: 10/12/2014 11:00:14 PM EDT
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They don't burn worth a shit Quote HistoryQuoted:
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IIRC, the Japanese didn't realize how wet the forests were in wintertime, and there was no significant risk of forest fire. Hah. Good luck getting a camp fire going in the Cascade range during a typical wet winter even with a zippo, five gallons of gas, kindling, three newspapers, and a boy scout. They don't burn worth a shit Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 11:09:26 PM EDT
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Hah. Good luck getting a camp fire going in the Cascade range during a typical wet winter even with a zippo, five gallons of gas, kindling, three newspapers, and a boy scout. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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IIRC, the Japanese didn't realize how wet the forests were in wintertime, and there was no significant risk of forest fire. Hah. Good luck getting a camp fire going in the Cascade range during a typical wet winter even with a zippo, five gallons of gas, kindling, three newspapers, and a boy scout. Tried it last January
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Posted: 10/12/2014 11:15:21 PM EDT
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What we sent in return. [url=[/url] never been done be foe! |
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Posted: 10/12/2014 11:26:39 PM EDT
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Neat find .
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Posted: 10/12/2014 11:34:05 PM EDT
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Thanks for the link, OP.
Let's hope that we and the Canadians don't incur any further WWII casualties. 
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