Interactive map of every bomb dropped on london from oct 1940 to June 1941
I'd forgotten about them, but I have read of them in the past. Before my house fire in 2003, we used to have two good used bookstores here, and I had picked up a BUNCH of good books about WWII
This reminds me of another little known story of WWII, and it concerns the U.S. There's a book called "Silent Siege,"
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Siege-III-Civilians-Documentary/dp/0936738731"]Silent Siege III: Japanese Attacks on North America in World War II : Ships Sunk, Air Raids, Bombs Dropped, Civilians Killed : Documentary: Bert Webber: 9780936738734: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]
which tells of the secret Japanese balloons carrying explosives with barometric exploders which Japan launched "in the wind" at this country by the hundreds. The U.S. govt kept these out of the news, both to avoid any panic, and to keep the Japanese from knowing if they were effective. They caused little damage. Some folks were killed, one incident was at a church picnic where someone came across the unknown device and tried to pick it up, when it exploded.
They had mechanisms to drop ballast and keep the balloon at altitude
Another Jap project was hanger equipped subs with tiny, fold--apart aircraft. They tried to start forest fires in the PNW but we had had a wet year, and the Japs did not understand our weather patterns. I believe they managed to start a small fire in Oregon. These were tiny, single engine, single person aircraft on floats.
Depiction of an I-400 class aircraft carrying sub:
The tubular shape on the near side is the hanger bay
I'd forgotten about them, but I have read of them in the past. Before my house fire in 2003, we used to have two good used bookstores here, and I had picked up a BUNCH of good books about WWII
This reminds me of another little known story of WWII, and it concerns the U.S. There's a book called "Silent Siege,"
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Siege-III-Civilians-Documentary/dp/0936738731"]Silent Siege III: Japanese Attacks on North America in World War II : Ships Sunk, Air Raids, Bombs Dropped, Civilians Killed : Documentary: Bert Webber: 9780936738734: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]
which tells of the secret Japanese balloons carrying explosives with barometric exploders which Japan launched "in the wind" at this country by the hundreds. The U.S. govt kept these out of the news, both to avoid any panic, and to keep the Japanese from knowing if they were effective. They caused little damage. Some folks were killed, one incident was at a church picnic where someone came across the unknown device and tried to pick it up, when it exploded.
They had mechanisms to drop ballast and keep the balloon at altitude
Another Jap project was hanger equipped subs with tiny, fold--apart aircraft. They tried to start forest fires in the PNW but we had had a wet year, and the Japs did not understand our weather patterns. I believe they managed to start a small fire in Oregon. These were tiny, single engine, single person aircraft on floats.
Depiction of an I-400 class aircraft carrying sub:
The tubular shape on the near side is the hanger bay