Japan Happy Times 1942- Why Not?

[Piggy]

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

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!