Blye Oregon News Today

And it happened right at the end of the war. they killed a 13-year-old girl named joan patsky. they killed an 11-year-old boy named sherman shoemaker. they killed two 13-year-old boys named jay gifford and edward engen. they killed joan patzkes brother, dick patzke. the only american casualties of world war ii who were killed on the u.s. mainland were those five little kids and that pregnant woman who were killed on a sunday school outing just outside of blye oregon in 1945, and they were killed...

These balloon bombs would do they particularly hoped they would cause forest fires along the heavily-wooded parts of the west coast, especially in places like oregon and washington. and they did start some fires. none of them terribly devastating. but these balloon bombs came down, you know all over the place, depending on where the wind blew them. one of them made it all the way east to nebraska and blew up over omaha, nebraska on april 18th 1945. this one was found on the ground with the bomb ...

Woman who stumbled upon it in their sunday school outing in 1945 that is the only balloon bomb that is known to have killed anyone. and they marked it with a monument near the spot where it blew up in blye, oregon, in 1950. because japan sent so many of these things up in the jet stream in world war ii it is thought that some of the thousands of them that made it to north america might still be out there in the wilderness. just last year they found an exploded one that drifted all the way up to ...