{"id":28218,"date":"2014-10-11T12:05:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28218"},"modified":"2014-10-11T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T16:05:27","slug":"ww2-japanese-balloon-bomb-discovered-in-british-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/10\/11\/ww2-japanese-balloon-bomb-discovered-in-british-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"WW2 Japanese balloon bomb discovered in British Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wayne Moore<\/a> on the recently discovered remnants of a unique Japanese weapon that was used to bomb the North American mainland during World War 2:<\/p>\n

\"Remains<\/a><\/p>\n

Seven decades after thousands of “balloon bombs” were let loose by the Imperial Japanese Army to wreak havoc on their enemies across the Pacific, two forestry workers found one half-buried in the mountains of eastern British Columbia.<\/p>\n

A navy bomb disposal team was called and arrived at the site Friday in the Monashee Mountains near Lumby, B.C.<\/p>\n

“They confirmed without a doubt that it is a Japanese balloon bomb,” said RCMP Cpl. Henry Proce.<\/p>\n

\"Japanese<\/a>“This thing has been in the dirt for 70 years …. There was still some metal debris in the area (but) nothing left of the balloon itself.”<\/p>\n

The forestry workers found the device Wednesday and reported it to RCMP on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Proce, a bit of a history buff himself, accompanied the men to the remote area and agreed that the piece appeared to be a military relic.<\/p>\n

The area was cordoned off and police contacted the bomb disposal unit at Maritime Forces Pacific.<\/p>\n

It was a big bomb, Proce said. A half-metre of metal casing was under the dirt in addition to approximately 15 to 20 centimetres sticking out of the ground.<\/p>\n

“It would have been far too dangerous to move it,” Proce said. “They put some C4 on either side of this thing and they blew it to smithereens.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wayne Moore on the recently discovered remnants of a unique Japanese weapon that was used to bomb the North American mainland during World War 2: Seven decades after thousands of “balloon bombs” were let loose by the Imperial Japanese Army to wreak havoc on their enemies across the Pacific, two forestry workers found one half-buried […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,24,663,230],"tags":[491],"class_list":["post-28218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-japan","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-bc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7l8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28222,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28218\/revisions\/28222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}