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Title: WW2 bombing of Oklahoma? yep,, the State that Is!
Post by: WWhiskey on May 28, 2013, 02:01:17 PM
Oh good story of the Only aerial bombing of a continental U.S.city. during WW2 as far as I know
They took off from my home town,,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5ih0STnpZo
Title: Re: WW2 bombing of Oklahoma? yep,, the State that Is!
Post by: gyrene81 on May 28, 2013, 02:15:53 PM
 :rofl   :lol  sounds like an incident from that movie 1941.
Title: Re: WW2 bombing of Oklahoma? yep,, the State that Is!
Post by: Arlo on May 28, 2013, 02:22:01 PM
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QK5cb9ghgTs/Tp3U-MtKOpI/AAAAAAAAK_M/iygKY20XB7w/s1600/Red+River+Rivalry.jpg)
Title: Re: WW2 bombing of Oklahoma? yep,, the State that Is!
Post by: RotBaron on May 28, 2013, 02:32:09 PM
IIRC, that is not the only known bombing on continental US soil during WW2, and the other events were Japanese attacks. It's been a long time, but I believe there were some helium balloon carried bombs that were launched and were known to hit a couple rural areas in Colorado and maybe Nebraska or Kansas. This topic was discussed in one of my WW2 classes at CSU, and I believe one of the bombs went off near Windsor, close to Ft. Collins and CSU. I believe the Japanese were experimenting with the jetstream and using balloon bombing. Kinda fuzzy on this...
Title: Re: WW2 bombing of Oklahoma? yep,, the State that Is!
Post by: Zacherof on May 28, 2013, 04:26:13 PM
And the Santa barbara incident :noid
Title: Re: WW2 bombing of Oklahoma? yep,, the State that Is!
Post by: bacon8tr on May 28, 2013, 07:06:21 PM
Quote from: WWhiskey on May 28, 2013, 02:01:17 PM
Oh good story of the Only aerial bombing of a continental U.S.city. during WW2 as far as I know
They took off from my home town,,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5ih0STnpZo

Oops.......... :noid
Title: Re: WW2 bombing of Oklahoma? yep,, the State that Is!
Post by: WEZEL on May 28, 2013, 10:26:38 PM

 :noid



http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/05/130527-map-video-balloon-bomb-wwii-japanese-air-current-jet-stream/
Title: Re: WW2 bombing of Oklahoma? yep,, the State that Is!
Post by: guncrasher on May 28, 2013, 11:18:59 PM
dont forget the table of los angeles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles


semp
Title: Re: WW2 bombing of Oklahoma? yep,, the State that Is!
Post by: RotBaron on May 29, 2013, 12:09:59 AM
Quote from: WEZEL on May 28, 2013, 10:26:38 PM
:noid



http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/05/130527-map-video-balloon-bomb-wwii-japanese-air-current-jet-stream/


Ahhh, hydrogen, yes that makes more sense...helium would have put them all in the ocean I suspect. Thanks.
Title: Re: WW2 bombing of Oklahoma? yep,, the State that Is!
Post by: Arlo on May 29, 2013, 07:40:42 AM
(http://www.liveforfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/plan-b-1941-424x600.jpg)