alternatehistory.com

Not everybody knows this but the Japanese actually did bomb the Mainland
United States. The Japanese used balloon bombs. The balloon bombs didn't
work because their altimeters didn't work. One balloon bomb made it as far
east as Detroit, Michigan. Their goal? To set the Pacific Northwest on fire.
Another balloon bomb landed harmlessly in an Oregon forest and exploded
killing a Sunday school teacher and four of her students. They're recorded as
being the last American casualties of World War II. The American people didn't know anything about the balloon bombs, which were launched from beaches in Japan at the end of 1944 and floated west across the Pacific. They knew that the balloon bombs came from Japan because of sand analysis. The reason for the lack of knowledge of the balloon bombs, then,
and now, is because of the heavy censorship of the event. What if the American people had known about the Japanese balloon bombs?
Top