by mid 1944 Japan is getting hit on a
daily basis from b-29 bombers
they are literally obliterating cities
Japan was dying
Japan’s only reaction to this is to
strike back
Japan is faced with a serious problem
they can’t develop a high-tech weapon
our problems in the brain inside of the
Japanese head there are 70 million of
these in Japan but perhaps a low-tech
weapon like a balloon could be launched
against America a brain the thought in
the modern way could be taught to use
the latest modern weapons they develop a
technology that is absolutely brilliant
simple in its approach but the technical
ability of this farm to be able to float
to America and on its way be controlled
by a series of sandbags it gets it to
its target is incredible someone had to
sit down and run the numbers to come up
with exactly how many sandbags exactly
how far they could project the balloon
to move and I find that to be pretty
incredible that same brain today remains
the problem however over a thousand were
launched they went as far as Texas and
as long as they stayed airborne they
could carry great distances so depending
on the wind and the altitude they
maintained they were falling all over
western America
in May of 1945 a minister his wife and
five children from their parish were out
on an outing near a town called Lakeview
Oregon the minister was parking the car
he led his wife out in the children they
went into the forest he heard her
exclaim look what we found and seconds
later by the time he got up there his
wife who was pregnant at the time and
only 26 years old and these five
children were dead it’s tragic to think
just how unlucky this family was only
known deaths in the continent United
States caused by the enemy during World
War two the wrong place the wrong time
and the innocent curiosity that went
horribly wrong
there are still balloons out there
obviously have the thousands they sent
over less than a thousand have been
discovered so you have to think that in
the massive forests of the Pacific
Northwest Canada Washington Oregon there
are some balloons out there if you’re
hiking in the Northwest be a little
careful and if you see an element like a
wheel with teeth on that’s a sharp end
of a disaster away to you as it can
explode they’re still there they’re
still waiting to be found
daily basis from b-29 bombers
they are literally obliterating cities
Japan was dying
Japan’s only reaction to this is to
strike back
Japan is faced with a serious problem
they can’t develop a high-tech weapon
our problems in the brain inside of the
Japanese head there are 70 million of
these in Japan but perhaps a low-tech
weapon like a balloon could be launched
against America a brain the thought in
the modern way could be taught to use
the latest modern weapons they develop a
technology that is absolutely brilliant
simple in its approach but the technical
ability of this farm to be able to float
to America and on its way be controlled
by a series of sandbags it gets it to
its target is incredible someone had to
sit down and run the numbers to come up
with exactly how many sandbags exactly
how far they could project the balloon
to move and I find that to be pretty
incredible that same brain today remains
the problem however over a thousand were
launched they went as far as Texas and
as long as they stayed airborne they
could carry great distances so depending
on the wind and the altitude they
maintained they were falling all over
western America
in May of 1945 a minister his wife and
five children from their parish were out
on an outing near a town called Lakeview
Oregon the minister was parking the car
he led his wife out in the children they
went into the forest he heard her
exclaim look what we found and seconds
later by the time he got up there his
wife who was pregnant at the time and
only 26 years old and these five
children were dead it’s tragic to think
just how unlucky this family was only
known deaths in the continent United
States caused by the enemy during World
War two the wrong place the wrong time
and the innocent curiosity that went
horribly wrong
there are still balloons out there
obviously have the thousands they sent
over less than a thousand have been
discovered so you have to think that in
the massive forests of the Pacific
Northwest Canada Washington Oregon there
are some balloons out there if you’re
hiking in the Northwest be a little
careful and if you see an element like a
wheel with teeth on that’s a sharp end
of a disaster away to you as it can
explode they’re still there they’re
still waiting to be found
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