Japan's Paper Balloon Bombs: The Strangest Weapon of WWII

In November 1944 objects began falling out of the sky over the American West. They carried high explosive and incendiaries. For five months nobody in the United States could say where they were coming from, and once the government worked it out, it decided not to tell anyone. This is the story of Fu-Go: nine thousand paper balloons, a river of wind almost nobody had mapped, a sixty-three-year-old woman who helped find the launch site by reading seashells, and the six people in Oregon who paid for the secret. CHAPTERS 0:00 Cold Open 1:05 Chapter One — Something In The Sky 5:18 Chapter Two — The River In The Sky 7:06 Chapter Three — Paper And Potato Glue 11:39 Chapter Four — The Dungeon Gang 14:35 Chapter Five — The Silence 18:16 Chapter Six — The Cost 20:40 Chapter Seven — The Men Who Jumped Into The Fire 23:00 Chapter Eight — How It Ended 25:25 Chapter Nine — What Is Still Out There 26:53 Close 28:36 Case Closed