Here’s What You Need to Know: Tokyo tried to find new weapons as it grew more desperate. Sitting on the far eastern rim of the Pacific, the United States mainland was... Key Point: As Tokyo got ...

During World War II, the Japanese aimed thousands of wind-borne explosives at North America. To this day, many have not been accounted for. Those who forget the past are liable to trip over it. Just a ...

November 3, 1944 - The first of 9,000 Japanese balloon bombs was launched on Nov. 3, 1944. The Japanese government was hoping to set fires and cause casualties during World War Two. Parts of five ...

Near the end of World War II, in an attempt to attack the United States mainland, Japan launched its fu-go campaign, deploying thousands of high-altitude hydrogen balloons armed with incendiary and ...

A bomb exploded at Tokyo international airport Saturday and 30 mystery balloons floated to earth in new security scares for a nation nervously awaiting arrests in a poison gas attack. There was no ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Iowa was bombed by Japan. How is it possible? Iowa is an inland state, 1,500 miles from the coast. How ...

In the final years of World War II, Japan launched a secret weapon designed to strike the American mainland from across the Pacific. Using high altitude jet streams, massive balloon bombs drifted more ...

The film will be shown at 7 p.m. as a fundraiser the Coos Historical & Maritime Museum. According to a museum press release, the award-winning documentary is about the lives of Japanese and Americans ...

Account of balloon bomb attacks on the West Coast of the United States during World War II and the role of paleontologists from the United States National Museum and United States Geological Survey in ...