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4 Nov 1944

United States
  • A floating rubberized silk balloon envelope was recovered by a US Navy patrol craft inshore of California’s Channel Islands. This balloon had been launched three days earlier from Ichinomiya, Japan carrying only radio equipment to assess the speeds of the high-altitude winds. ww2dbase [Channel Islands, California | DS]
  • A floating rubberized silk balloon envelope was recovered by a US Navy patrol craft inshore of California’s Channel Islands. This balloon had been launched three days earlier from Ichinomiya, Japan carrying only radio equipment to assess the speeds of the high-altitude winds. ww2dbase [Fu-Go | Channel Islands, California | DS]



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Thomas Dodd, late 1945


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