If Fu-Go, I Go

Join us as we talk all things Fu-Go, the most metal balloons of the 20th century. Spoiler alert: It’s the Japanese balloon bomb. Check out the show notes for additional information.
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The Japanese Noborito Laboratory, which became the Noborito Institute for Peace Education on Meiji University’s campus, has an exhibit in Japanese on the Fire Balloons.

Robert C. Mikesh “Japan’s World War II Balloon Bomb Attacks on North America” Smithsonian Annals of Flight no. 9, Smithsonian Institute Press, 1973.

Ross Coen, “Fu-Go: The Curious History of Japan's Balloon Bomb Attack on America,” University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

Koichi Yoshino, "Balloon Bombs, Documents of the Fugo, a Japanese Weapon"



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