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Old October 7th, 2003, 08:16 PM
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Stumbled across this during research. I never knew Japan managed to bomb the USA during WWII. Did you guys?

www.kilroywashere.org/006-Pages/06-BombOregon.html

If you`ve never seen the kilroywashere site, take some time to navagate round it. Its got loads of interesting "funnies".

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Does that mean you've never heard of the Japanese baloon bombs???

One killed 6 in Oregon as they dragged off an unexploded one.

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Hey Jack, very interesting. That's crazy, I always wondered why Japan never came over here for the offensive but I guess now my questions are answered. Thanks for the clarification.
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That is really intresting. I have never heard of that. I have heard about the balloon bombs though. i wonder why no one ever talks about it?
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I also found it interesting that Japan launched seaplanes to fly over Pearl Harbor prior to the Battle of Midway to get intelligence of the US fleet.
Also a submarine surfaced off of a factory in Oregon in 1942 i think and shelled it for a few hours. Pretty interesting huh.
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I remember reading about that when I was younger.

I also think one of the balloon bombs landed all the way in Michigan and killed some boy scouts or something on an outing.

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They used the ballons to start forest fires in the Canadian shield. They have a unexploded one in the War Museum that was found.

I believe they where a primative fire bomb.
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