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Re: Operation "Fugo"
Posted by: kurt ()
Date: October 17, 2001 10:46AM

<HTML>This is actually a pretty well known 'footnote' to the Pacific war.

One of the reasons it was kept secret was to avoid letting the Japanese know whether it worked.

There was one case where a family on a picnic exploded a bomb by accident and some were killed - Until Sept 11 the only cases of war casualties on the US mainland since the Civil War.

I seem to remember hearing that one of the bombs damaged an electric substation and knocked out the power going into the US plutonium manufacturing facility at Hanover for a few hours.

Also, there was talk of using the balloon bombs to spread bio-weapons like anthrax, but the war ended before anyone went that far.

I am sure there are a number of sources on it if you look.</HTML>

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Operation &quot;Fugo&quot; Torlef 10/17/2001 06:58AM
Re: Operation &quot;Fugo&quot; oliver 10/17/2001 07:43AM
Re: Operation &quot;Fugo&quot; walter M 10/17/2001 06:44PM
Re: Operation &quot;Fugo&quot; kurt 10/17/2001 10:46AM
Re: Operation &quot;Fugo&quot; Tom Iwanski 10/17/2001 01:31PM
Re: Operation &quot;Fugo&quot; Rainer Kolbicz 10/17/2001 06:35PM
Re: Operation &quot;Fugo&quot; Yuri IL'IN 10/29/2001 02:52AM


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