Sgt. Joe Harris, believed to be the oldest surviving World War II paratrooper and a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black ...
The attacks prompted the Japanese to seek a way to bring the war to the United States. It took two years before they found the right instrument: a new weapon, the balloon bomb. From November of 1944 ...
the government considers it a "pre-modern method" used by the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II, when it used balloons as intercontinental weapons systems to send bombs over great distances.