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Japanese Balloon Battle
mw2040 writes "Slate reports on a little-known method used by the Japanese during WWII - hydrogen-filled paper balloons with deadly payloads floated without a guidance-system across the Pacific. Both amazing low-tech warfare and a cautionary tale about censorship during wartime. More links (even one for our neighbors to the North) (shamelessly stolen from the article)."
... the pinnacle of the science of precision bombing. Can't really see it catching on.
One Bit of censorship I think is funny is the number of times the Canadians burned down the Whitehouse.
Is this news not 60 years old?
One Bit of censorship I think is funny is the number of times the Canadians burned down the Whitehouse.
which is why we dont have you guys over for parties anymore...
sheesh, get a few kegs of beer in you guys and holy crap things get wild....
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
> around 800,000 crack troops who had been beating back the 6-8 million Chinese troops who opposed them.
Imagine how much better they would have done if they were meth troops instead.