The Paper War Balloons of World War Two
The strange story of the world’s first intercontinental weapon
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6 min readMar 22, 2020
On the third of November of 1944, the Japanese launched the world’s first intercontinental weapons against the mainland United States. Thousands of paper balloons, assembled by high school aged girls with a potato based glue, were launched into the winter jet stream, timed to fall onto the…
