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Originally Posted by Erich dem Roten
I also seem to recall several attempts by the Japanese to release incendiaries over the woodlands in the Pacific Northwest, in an attempt to cause massive fires
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Those were fire Balloons, according to wiki they launched over 9000 of them, some apparently reaching as far as Saskatchewan! Wow.
There was some deaths (5 kids and a women) caused by them, when a young child tampered with one of the bombs in oregon. What a crazy idea. They only took 3 days to cross the pacific in the jet stream!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks...g_World_War_II
http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avfusen.html
I didnt realize a Japanese sub actually shelled a lighthouse on vancouver Island (interesting to me because I live in Vancouver) but never managed to hit it. How can you not even hit a stationary target with a big bright light on top!
Although they blacked out the lighthouses after that, which did, in the end cause some ships to sink. Maybe that was the plan all along!
