>>>Listening to the troll brigade really makes me wish the US had stayed out of WWI and WWII so the trolls would either not exist or would be whimpering to their German or Japanese masters now.
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>LOL, don't you find the story even slightly interesting? Perhaps you might even find a hint of pathos that the foe is so desperate to strike at its enemy's homeland that it resorts to balloons in the wind, but success is limited to a few country folk who meddle with a downed balloon and blow themselves up. We all know what the Japanese would have done if they could have invaded, but that's not the story. As for staying out of the World Wars: are you serious? Involvement led directly to many of the benefits enjoyed to this day.

Actually I've read quite a bit about the balloon bombs and have seen several good documentaries on them. Very stealthy to wherever they wind up.

They were working on disbursing biological weapons with them. Plague infested fleas was one of the areas of research. That may actually have been effective far beyond the effort to develop and deploy them had they started doing it.

They used the Chinese as test subjects.