[Milsurplus] Small things matter... more

[Brian Bjerkelund]

I've been to the site where this incident occured......a somber area to this
day.  The lady was the wife of a local minister; she and her husband were
taking a group of children on a picnic after church.  He dropped the group
off and was moving the car to a better parking spot when he heard a huge
explosion.

There is a monument on the site as well as rememberances from Japanese folks
who have visited the location.

Brian,
K7AIS
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Subject: [Milsurplus] Small things matter... more


> I posted the original sand story to a couple of other lists and received
the
> following replies, which are quite interesting:
>
> ************
>
> Dr. McCrone is a fascinating guy to hear speak.  Considered a worldwide
> authority in his field
> (Microscopy), he became noticed by the general public through his analysis
of
> the Shroud of
> Turin.
>
> I was unaware of his work in the war effort-interesting.
>
> Bet one of those Japanese balloons would be amongst the most scarce of
captured
> MVs to collect!
>
> Thanks for sharing,
> David Doyle
>
> ************
>
> "The only WWII fatalities from enemy action on the mainland North America
> sadly occurred May 5, 1945, near Bly, Oregon, when a family encountered
one
> of the explosive bombs from a balloon. The resulting explosion killed six
> people."
>
> Courtesy:
>
http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/people/smokejumpers/missoula/History/555th/555.htm
>
>
> >From Chance Wolf
>
>
> ****************
>
> Here's a better one:
>
> "On May 5, 1945, a pregnant woman and five children were killed by a
balloon
> bomb while they were on a church picnic near Bly, Ore. Other than this
> incident, the balloons caused only a few small fires and a minor power
> outage at the Hanford facility in Washington State, where ironically,
> plutonium for the first atomic bomb was being prepared."
>
> From: http://www.missoulian.com/specials/salute/Salute3-fire.html
>
> >From Chance Wolf again.
>
> ***************
>
> -John
>
>
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