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Japan balloon

Published June 28, 2018 at 400 × 523 in Japanese balloons bomb Iowa! A strange, but true story from World War II

Japan launched more than 9,300 paper balloons carrying bombs over the Pacific Ocean from late 1944 to early 1945 to attack the United States, including Iowa, in an attempt to instill fear and terror during World War II.

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