The chandelier style gondola of a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb recovered in the Klamath Mountains between Red Bluff and Hayfork, California, United States 1 Feb 1945. Note the clear battery box on top.

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Caption     The chandelier style gondola of a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb recovered in the Klamath Mountains between Red Bluff and Hayfork, California, United States 1 Feb 1945. Note the clear battery box on top. ww2dbase
WW2-Era Location Name Red Bluff, California, United States
Date 1 Feb 1945
Photographer    Unknown
 
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States Army via Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
 
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Added By David Stubblebine
Photo Size 893 x 704 pixels



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1. Commenter identity confirmed David Stubblebine says:
25 Feb 2023 09:25:52 PM

This was the first complete balloon ballast dropping apparatus to be discovered. Note also the live cylindrical 5kg incendiary bombs and a few remaining ballast bags still attached to the ballast ring. The original Army caption concludes, “Note the good new Manila rope with which the apparatus was suspended from the bag. All balloons had this type of rope which was unobtainable in the U.S. during the war.”

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