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| Caption | The chandelier style gondola of a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb recovered in the Klamath Mountains between Red Bluff and Hayfork, California, United States 1 Feb 1945. Note the clear battery box on top. ww2dbase | |||||
| WW2-Era Location Name | Red Bluff, California, United States | |||||
| Date | 1 Feb 1945 | |||||
| Photographer | Unknown | |||||
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| Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Army via Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | |||||
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| Photos on Same Day | 1 Feb 1945 | |||||
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| Added By | David Stubblebine | |||||
| Photo Size | 893 x 704 pixels | |||||
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This was the first complete balloon ballast dropping apparatus to be discovered. Note also the live cylindrical 5kg incendiary bombs and a few remaining ballast bags still attached to the ballast ring. The original Army caption concludes, “Note the good new Manila rope with which the apparatus was suspended from the bag. All balloons had this type of rope which was unobtainable in the U.S. during the war.”