BalloOn Bomber (Slightly Used)

摘要

It was my first solo flight: riding a Japanese paper bag across the winter skies of the Twin Cities in 1947. But as paper bags go, this one was exceptional. In its prior service, the carefully crafted balloon had carried a Japanese bomb 5,000 miles across the Pacific—one of thousands sent to wreak havoc on the western United States. Most failed—only 300 of the 9,300 launched were recovered in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and only a few of those actually exploded.