You're welcome fren, it was largely forgotten and came back into the public conversation when one was discovered in the early 2000s by a logging crew. That's when I first learned of these.
No we didn’t. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were firebombed just like Tokyo was, but the big difference is those 2 cities were made almost entirely from wood. There were very few concrete/brick buildings in those cities. Remember they said those cities would be unlivable for hundreds of years and both are thriving cities today. Nukes are a lie perpetuated by the globohomo.
Fugu, also known as pufferfish, blowfish, or globefish, is a Japanese delicacy of poisonous fish from the Tetraodontidae family. The fish contains tetrodotoxin (TTX), a neurotoxin in its organs, especially the liver and ovaries, that's 1,200 times more lethal than cyanide. Fugu poisoning can cause paralysis, nausea, and heart failure, with no known antidote.
"The ordnance they carried suggested the balloon bombs’ primary strategic mission was to wage an incendiary war against the rich forests of the American Northwest. Upon impact, each fire bomb would disperse a flaming chemical and had the potential of destroying hundreds of acres of woodland. If the Fu-Go mission had been entirely successful, the Imperial Command would have unloaded fifteen thousand antipersonnel bombs and sixty thousand incendiary bombs on the United States."
"In December 1944, a military intelligence project began evaluating the weapon by collecting the various evidence from the balloon sites. An analysis of the ballast revealed the sand to be from a beach in the south of Japan, which helped narrow down the launch sites. They also concluded that the main damage from these bombs came from the incendiaries, which were especially dangerous for the forests of the Pacific Northwest. The winter was the dry season, during which forest fires could turn very destructive and spread easily. Yet overall, the military concluded that the attacks were scattered and aimless.
Because the military worried that any report of these balloon bombs would induce panic among Americans, they ultimately decided the best course of action was to stay silent."
If propaganda was the key, Not alerting the public to these things at the time seems like an ineffective one at best. Also keep in mind this is 1940s Imperial Japan.
They send over little piddling balloons but we dropped the sun on them....twice. Ended that crap will quick.
True, my post was to show that although the insurgency levels or technology changes, the tactics often remain the same.
I never knew about this weapon and I've read a lot of books about World War 2... thanks for sharing this.
You're welcome fren, it was largely forgotten and came back into the public conversation when one was discovered in the early 2000s by a logging crew. That's when I first learned of these.
No we didn’t. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were firebombed just like Tokyo was, but the big difference is those 2 cities were made almost entirely from wood. There were very few concrete/brick buildings in those cities. Remember they said those cities would be unlivable for hundreds of years and both are thriving cities today. Nukes are a lie perpetuated by the globohomo.
Fugo...not to be confused with, Fugu:
Fugu, also known as pufferfish, blowfish, or globefish, is a Japanese delicacy of poisonous fish from the Tetraodontidae family. The fish contains tetrodotoxin (TTX), a neurotoxin in its organs, especially the liver and ovaries, that's 1,200 times more lethal than cyanide. Fugu poisoning can cause paralysis, nausea, and heart failure, with no known antidote.
"The ordnance they carried suggested the balloon bombs’ primary strategic mission was to wage an incendiary war against the rich forests of the American Northwest. Upon impact, each fire bomb would disperse a flaming chemical and had the potential of destroying hundreds of acres of woodland. If the Fu-Go mission had been entirely successful, the Imperial Command would have unloaded fifteen thousand antipersonnel bombs and sixty thousand incendiary bombs on the United States."
Source article here:
https://www.americanheritage.com/i-fu-go-project
"In December 1944, a military intelligence project began evaluating the weapon by collecting the various evidence from the balloon sites. An analysis of the ballast revealed the sand to be from a beach in the south of Japan, which helped narrow down the launch sites. They also concluded that the main damage from these bombs came from the incendiaries, which were especially dangerous for the forests of the Pacific Northwest. The winter was the dry season, during which forest fires could turn very destructive and spread easily. Yet overall, the military concluded that the attacks were scattered and aimless.
Because the military worried that any report of these balloon bombs would induce panic among Americans, they ultimately decided the best course of action was to stay silent."
Source article here:
https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/japanese-balloon-bombs-fu-go/
Pro-American war propaganda. That thing looks like a pile of junk stacked together.
If propaganda was the key, Not alerting the public to these things at the time seems like an ineffective one at best. Also keep in mind this is 1940s Imperial Japan.