Fu-Go Photographs | World War II Database

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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.	Nearly deflated Japanese Fu-Go Type A balloon grounded near Tremonton, Utah, United States, 23 Feb 1945. The ballast dropping equipment found with this balloon was damaged.

A Royal Canadian Navy intelligence officer approaching a downed Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb in the western Canadian provinces, circa Mar 1945. Note the incendiary bombs still attached.	Captain Harold Cross of the Canadian Army was a balloon expert and is seen here next to a Japanese Fu-Go balloon’s ballast dropping apparatus after a balloon bomb recovery in Canada.

United States Army photo of a partially deflated Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb over the Pacific Ocean, likely near the Aleutian Islands. This shows why these descending balloons were often mistaken for parachutes.	Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb draped across power lines in Toppenish, Washington, United States, 10 Mar 1945. This balloon caused a power outage that briefly affected the Hanford nuclear reactors 40 miles away.

A captured and partially reinflated Japanese Fu-Go Type A balloon bomb inside the blimp hangar at Naval Air Station Moffett Field, Mountain View, California, United States, Aug 1945.	A captured and reinflated Japanese Fu-Go paper Type A balloon being evaluated at Naval Air Station Moffett Field, Mountain View, California, United States, Aug 1945.

A captured and reinflated Japanese Fu-Go Type A balloon bomb on a tethered test flight at Naval Air Station Moffett Field, Mountain View, California, United States, Aug 1945.	A captured and reinflated Japanese Type B Fu-Go rubberized silk balloon, Aug 1945. Probably inside the blimp hangar at Naval Air Station Moffett Field, Mountain View, California, United States.

A recovered ballast dropping apparatus from a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb that has been reassembled for demonstration purposes.	A stripped-down view of the chandelier style frame of the ballast dropping apparatus from a captured Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb.

Annotated photo of the payload components of a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb, circa Aug 1945.	A captured Japanese paper Fu-Go Type A balloon bomb, reinflated for testing, being wheeled out of the blimp hangar at Naval Air Station Moffett Field, Mountain View, California, United States, 27 Aug 1945.

A recovered ballast dropping apparatus from a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb being examined by an American technician. He is removing the battery case to expose the components of the barometer box beneath.	Close up of a Japanese 5kg Type A incendiary bomb hanging from a ballast ring of a Fu-Go balloon bomb, mid-1945. Note the two blowout plugs in the ballast ring supporting this bomb.

Men of the United States Army 1st Cavalry Division examining the freshly discovered launch site for the Fu-Go balloon bombs at Otsu, Japan Apr 1947. The dark barrel-shaped devices are gas generators for the hydrogen gas.	Annotated diagram of a Japanese Fu-Go Type A balloon bomb from top to bottom.

Annotated diagram of a Japanese Fu-Go Type A balloon bomb from top to bottom.	Postwar American chart roughly showing the path of the jet-stream used by the Japanese Fu-Go balloon bombs. The actual path curved sharply northward along the Aleutians and down the North American coast.

23 items in this album on 2 pages.