In late 1944, the Japanese military began launching 9,000 unmanned bomb-carrying balloon across the Pacific to bombard the West Coast. Most of the balloon bombs fell harmlessly in the ocean, but a few ...

Those who forget the past are liable to trip over it. Just a few months ago a couple of forestry workers in Lumby, British Columbia — about 250 miles north of the U.S. border — happened upon a 70-year ...

Sitting on the far eastern rim of the Pacific, the United States mainland was virtually invulnerable to Japanese attack during the Second World War. Even long-range bombers didn’t have the necessary ...

Key Point: As Tokyo got desperate and still wanted ways to hit the American homeland, it tried to find new weapons. This including floating baloon bombs on air currents across the Pacific. Sitting on ...