A marker documents a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb that exploded in Omaha during World War II. Japan launched thousands of these high-altitude weapons toward North America, making the Nebraska incident an unusual local trace of a little-known wartime campaign.
Filed under roadside oddities: giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
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Source: history.nebraska.gov/nebraska-historical-marker-photo-submission/