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08/26/13 9:46 PM

#208305 RE: DesertDrifter #208294

Scarred in places, but still beautiful


Summit Trail in South Warner Wilderness, Modoc National Forest, California - 19 June 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Modoc_National_Forest.jpg

lol .. from the .. Management ..
Forest headquarters are located in Alturas, California ..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alturas,_California .. There are
local ranger district offices located in Adin, Alturas, Cedarville, and Tulelake.

link there .. WWII Japanese balloon bomb On January 10, 1945,
a balloon bomb .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon ..
was shot down approximately 30 miles west of the town

A fire balloon [...] "balloon bomb"), or Fu-Go, was a weapon launched by Japan during World War II. A hydrogen balloon with a load varying from a 12-kilogram (26 lb) incendiary to one 15 kg (33 lb) antipersonnel bomb and four 5 kg (11 lb) incendiary devices attached, they were designed as a cheap weapon intended to make use of the jet stream over the Pacific Ocean and wreak havoc on Canadian and American cities, forests, and farmland.

The balloons were relatively ineffective as weapons but were used in one of the few attacks on North America during World War II.

Between November 1944 and April 1945, Japan launched over 9,300 fire balloons. About 300 balloon bombs were found or observed in North America, killing six people and causing a small amount of damage.


Shot-down fire balloon reinflated by Americans in California

.. old ways of old days .. the balloon bomb is totally new to me ..