‘One of the Most Bizarre and Obscure Chapters of Modern Warfare’
‘One of the Most Bizarre and Obscure Chapters of Modern Warfare’
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Editor’s note: A Chinese balloon drifted over Montana (and later across much of the U.S.) in late January and early February of this year created an international incident. But the balloon, eventually shot down over the Atlantic Ocean, was far from the first foreign balloon to make its way to Montan...
Historians estimate that Japan launched about 9,300 balloons at the height of World War II, each carrying about 800 pounds of bombs. About 300 were sighted or found in North America, with 32 balloon bombs turning up in Montana, including one in Kalispell.