Overview

From backward 1944 until aboriginal 1945, the Japanese launched over 9,300 of these blaze balloons, of which 300 were begin or empiric in the U.S. Despite the top hopes of their designers, the balloons were abortive as weapons, and acquired alone six deaths (from one individual incident)—a annihilate bulk of 0.067%—and a baby bulk of damage.

Japanese bomb-carrying balloons were 10 m (33 ft) in bore and, if absolutely inflated, captivated about 540 m3 (19,000 cu ft) of hydrogen. Their barrage sites were amid on the east bank of the capital Japanese island of Honshū.

Japan appear the aboriginal of these bomb-bearing balloons on November 3, 1944. They were begin in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Michigan2 and Iowa, as able-bodied as Mexico and Canada.

General Kusaba's men launched over 9,000 balloons throughout the advance of the project. The Japanese accepted 10% (around 900) of them to ability America, which is aswell what is currently believed by researchers.citation needed About 300 airship bombs were begin or empiric in America. It is acceptable that added airship bombs landed in austere areas of North America.

The endure one was launched in April 1945.