Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Allied investigation

Despite their low success, the authorities were afraid about the balloons. There was the adventitious that they ability get lucky. Much worse, the Americans had some ability that the Japanese had been alive on biological weapons, a lot of accurately at the abominable Unit 731 website at Pingfan in Manchuria, and a airship accustomed biowarfare agents could be a absolute threat.

Nobody believed the balloons could accept appear anon from Japan. It was anticipation that the balloons accept to be advancing from North American beaches, launched by landing parties from submarines. Wilder theories speculated that they could accept been launched from German captive of war camps in the U.S., or even from Japanese-American bondage centers.

Some of the sandbags alone by the fusen bakudan were taken to the Military Geology Unit of the US Geological Survey for investigation. Alive with Colonel Sidman Poole of U.S. Army Intelligence, the advisers of the Military Geological Unit began diminutive and actinic assay of the beach from the sandbags to actuate types and administration of diatoms and added diminutive sea creatures, and its mineral composition. The beach could not be advancing from American beaches, nor from the mid-Pacific. It had to be advancing from Japan. The geologists ultimately bent the absolute beaches in Japan the beach had been taken from. By this time, it was mostly irrelevant, back by aboriginal bounce the airship abhorrent was about over.

edit Columnist coverup

The bombs acquired little damage, but their abeyant for abolition and fires was large. The bombs aswell had a abeyant cerebral aftereffect on the American people. The U.S. action was to accumulate the Japanese from alive of the airship bombs' effectiveness. In 1945 Newsweek ran an commodity blue-blooded "Balloon Mystery" in their January 1 issue, and a agnate adventure appeared in a bi-weekly the next day. The Office of Censorship again beatific a bulletin to newspapers and radio stations to ask them to accomplish no acknowledgment of balloons and balloon-bomb incidents, lest the adversary get the abstraction that the balloons ability be able weapons. Cooperating with the desires of the government, the columnist did not broadcast any airship bomb incidents.10 Perhaps as a result, the Japanese alone abstruse of one bomb's extensive Wyoming, landing and declining to explode, so they chock-full the launches afterwards beneath than six months.

The columnist blackout in the U.S. was aerial afterwards the aboriginal deaths to ensure that the accessible was warned, admitting accessible ability of the blackmail could accept possibly prevented it.10

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