White Paper: Balloon Bombs from Japan

Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History by Curiouscast

Sep 7, 202667:08Society & Culture

Episode 435: In November 1944, the Imperial Japanese Army began launching paper balloons from the coast of Honshu — each one carrying incendiary and anti-personnel bombs, designed to ride the jet stream across the Pacifi...

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