EXCLUSIVE: The general wisdom is that the United States mainland was not attacked during World War II.However, a new documentary launching on Discovery+, from Objective Media Group America, highlights that this isn’t technically true.The streamer has ordered Great Balloon Bomb Invasion, a history special that will lift the lid on a relatively lesser known attack on U.S.
soil by the Japanese.Between 1944 and 1945, the Japanese launched more than 9,000 bomb-rigged balloons across the Pacific, resulting in six deaths in Oregon.The ‘Fu-Go’ bombs reached as far east as Indiana and as far south as Texas, but only 300 have ever been found, leaving potentially thousands of bombs scattered across the country.
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