Fu-Go balloon bomb
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fu-go-balloon-bomb-184-78402
title:
Fu-Go balloon bomb
text:
Fu-Go Fu-Go was an incendiary balloon weapon deployed by Japan against the United States during World War II. It consisted of a hydrogen-filled paper balloon 33 feet (10 m) in diameter, with a payload of four 11-pound (5.0 kg) incendiary devices and one 33-pound (15 kg) high-explosive anti-personnel bomb. The uncontrolled balloons were carried over the Pacific Ocean from Japan to North America by fast, high-altitude air currents, today known as the jet stream, and used a sophisticated sandbag ba
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
WWII Japanese incendiary weapon
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
date created:
2002-04-12T09:57:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T02:48:46Z
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