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Post by pat perry on Dec 8, 2012 6:28:23 GMT 9
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Jim Scanlon (deceased)
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Post by Jim Scanlon (deceased) on Dec 8, 2012 7:02:06 GMT 9
Although not by airplane, there were numerous "Balloon" attacks on the U.S. Mainland.
The below article is quite comprehensive and has lots of pictures, maps, charts and newspaper articles.
There were six killed, a pastor's wife and five children, when one of the children set off a balloon bomb.
That was near Bly, Oregon (NE of Klamath Falls).
The almost forgotten theater of WW2 was the Aleutians Campaign.
Interesting reading, you can find stories on line about it.
German U-Boats also did some shelling along the East Coast.
But, the incident Pat posted, is the only attack by airplane on the Mainland.
Jim Too
:god_bless_usa
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Post by dude on Dec 10, 2012 11:00:12 GMT 9
 In Lakeview, Oregon, Mrs. Elsie Mitchell and five neighborhood children are killed while attempting to drag a Japanese balloon out the woods. Unbeknownst to Mitchell and the children, the balloon was armed, and it exploded soon after they began tampering with it. They were the first and only known American civilians to be killed in the continental United States during World War II. The U.S. government eventually gave $5,000 in compensation to Mitchell's husband, and $3,000 each to the families of Edward Engen, Sherman Shoemaker, Jay Gifford, and Richard and Ethel Patzke, the five slain children.
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