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The seven original buildings at the Bly Ranger Station were constructed between 1936 and 1942. A modern administrative headquarters building was added to the compound in the 1960s. The ranger station compound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. [12] [13] Memorial to the victims of the Japanese balloon bomb
On May 5, 1945, six civilians were killed by one of the bombs near Bly, Oregon, becoming the war's only fatalities in the contiguous U.S. The Fu-Go balloon bomb was the first weapon system with intercontinental range, predating the intercontinental ballistic missile.
Mitchell Recreation Area is a small picnic area located in the Fremont-Winema National Forests, Lake County, Oregon, near the unincorporated community of Bly.In it stands the Mitchell Monument, erected in 1950, which marks the only location in the United States where Americans were killed during World War II as a direct result of a Japanese balloon bomb.
On May 5, 1945, a pregnant Sunday school teacher and five children from a small Oregon town called Bly were killed by a Japanese-built bomb that had floated across the ocean on a balloon.
The C&MA church in Bly, Oregon. On Saturday, May 5, 1945, Mitchell, who at that time was the pastor of the C&MA church (now called "Standing Stone Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance") in Bly, Oregon, [7] led a Sunday School picnic up into the nearby mountains of southern Oregon.
Balloon launch for Operation Outward. Felixstowe, Suffolk, England. An incendiary balloon (or balloon bomb) is a balloon inflated with a lighter-than-air gas such as hot air, hydrogen, or helium, that has a bomb, incendiary device, or Molotov cocktail attached. The balloon is carried by the prevailing winds to the target area, where it falls or ...
During a two-day survey, contractors unearthed another 155 practice bombs in a 21-square-foot area, officials said. Several reports indicate that the total of uncovered bombs now stands at 175 or ...
Hundreds of balloon bombs may have landed but were never found and may still constitute unexploded ordnance. Date: 17 July 2011, 16:35: Source: Mitchell Monument, Bly, Oregon: Author: Michael (a.k.a. moik) McCullough from Klamath Falls, Oregon, USA