Continued from Nov. 9th.
Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade Dallas Barnett, now 91 and living in Amherst, Ohio, was one of the men put in charge to find out the launching sites for the Fu Gu Balloons.
These balloons were 31-feet in diameter, hrdrogen-filled paper balloons with a control system to keep it at altitude for its three-day Pacific crossing.
Ballast sand found at crash sites indicated the balloons were launched from areas of Japan that had been bombed.
Barnett said that after the war, he went to Japan on a business trip and met a Japanese veteran who said they launched the Fu Gus from a ship.
A Sneak Weapon. --DaCoot
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