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Originally Posted by scarface
Or, how about the Japanese Fire Balloons, made in response to Doolittle's Tokyo raid (at least, according to Wikipedia - first I've heard THAT particular tidbit!)
9,000 were launched in Japan - they rode the jetstream over the Pacific, and at least 300 were documented to have made it to the U.S. west coast.
talk about 'low tech'!
-whatever
-Lou |
this reminds me of a show i saw i think on the History channel, about the development of secret weapon, the funniest i can remember was the guy who got govt funding to train bats to fly for a specific amount of time and then rest, they had small incendiary bombs attached to them, they were to be deployed in the rice paper and bamboo homes of the pacific theatre.
pretty strange!!!