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Mitchell Monument and Japanese Balloon Bomb Site

Bly, OR

A forest memorial marks the site where a Japanese balloon bomb killed Elsie Mitchell and five children in 1945, the only U.S. deaths from an enemy balloon bomb during World War II.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Recreation_Area

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