![A Fu-Go bomb snagged on a tree in Kansas, February 23, 1945. Approximately 9,000 balloons were launched, but only about 900 made it across the Pacific; several landed in the Midwest.](https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Q-Sum20-Ordnance-Balloons-5-LEAD-760x380.jpg)
WWII
The Deadly Balloon Bombs of Imperial Japan
By 1944, the Japanese still had no long-range bombers to match the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. And a great many of Dai Nippon’s warplanes and aircraft carriers were lying at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Read more