The Deadly Bizarre Balloon Blitz Barrage 

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Would not happen now due to inflation

"it could have been prevented, had the government not governmented." So true on many, many occassions !

"I dont want to set the world on fire" was popularized by The Ink Spots, a black pop group who were most famous during the '30's and '40's. They predated the doo wop genra, which eventually gave way to the popularity of rythm and blues among white communities. They made way for a lot of of amazing black musicians to make their mark on the music world. Modern audiences have been reintroduced to them by the Fallout games.

A number of Canadian Hawker Hurricane's were fitted with wires running body to wing in order to knock the Japanese balloons out of the air by literally flying into them. I don't know how effective they actually were at that job, but we Canadians are by and large, crazy enough to do it.

Balloons are really cheap and effective they can carry big payloads at cheapest prices.

"a 10 to 75% chance" is the most vague statement I've heard in an otherwise serious evaluation of chance. 😂

Thats actually a good idea; a lot of channels use a different person to do the ad reads. Easier on the main host, easier to schedule and delegate the ad read recording ... good idea over all. Simon should consider this for all his channels.

I learned in school about the Japanese balloon bombs that set fires here in Washington state.

Always get a laugh when I hear of a tactic being referred to as "ungentlemanly". Amazing how attitudes change the moment things start going to hell.

@6:07 "...had between a 10 to 75 percent chance..." Sort of a lot of play there...right?

I wonder how many people in an attempt to stop one of these balloons became a casualty of said balloons. Via dragged to death, carried to high altitude and fell etc...

'Up, up and away in my beautiful balloon', you have to be quite old for this one, just like me. Well done to all those brave women that were part of this programme, that I had never heard of until I watched this video, keep them coming, Simon.

The original drone.

This, and many other things, really shows why the electrical infrastructure should be underground. Yes it comes with its own challenges but it would likely be considerably more stable. Unfortunately retrofitting this would required digging around and under existing structures so probably won’t happen any time soon.

Captain Darling was right, There’s nothing cushy about life in the Women’s Auxiliary Balloon Corps.

I've really been enjoying the content lately regarding WW2. History was never a good subject for me during my high school years, but if they had talked about what I've seen on the channel lately, I definitely would've paid attention. And learned more too! Thanks for making it so interesting.

I dont think ive ever seen a video uploaded less than a minute ago. Wild.

One source from the 1970s reports that it all started when a man in the back said “everyone attack!”

99 Red Balloons Go By

That last story was horrific.

An interesting tidbit about the Japanese incendiary balloons: The first unit of smoke jumpers was created to deal with that threat as well as the fires caused by other sources in the Pacific Northwest. Timber was a critical war resource and the US gov felt that they couldn’t afford to lose any of it. The US Army had trained a battalion of black paratroopers, the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion. They never reached full battalion strength and thus were never deployed to the combat zone, although late in the war, officials considered attaching them to one of the existing airborne units as a “reinforced rifle company.” They were given training in firefighting and deployed to the west coast where they proved invaluable in fighting fires that would otherwise have been inaccessible. They proved so successful that following the war, many former paratroopers found employment as “smoke jumpers” which are still widely used today. Following the war, the men of the 555th were distributed to other units of the 82nd Airborne Division making it the first integrated division of the US Army.

99 luftballoons... 😂😂

The grandpappy of the Drone wars going on now

Definitely need some fiber in that diet. 12:28

My grandma operated barrage balloons for the WAF in London in WW2 - she always said the most nerve wracking bit was when winching the balloon back down when it got windy and it was black out conditions as some had explosive charges attached that you didn't want to pull into the winch you were operating.

Omg it’s 99 thousand Luf Ballon’s

Why aren't kids allowed to see pirate movies? They're all rated arrrrr.

I'm just imagining what it'd be like to be in the German countryside minding your own business and just seeing the sun blotted out by a herd of tentacle monsters telling you to fuck yourself 😂😂😂

Lol i have gone to school in Fleurus, the city on the painting at the beginning of the video. Little city in Belgium

I'm amazed this is the first time I've heard of this! As a kid I read a LOT about WWII, but nowhere was this mentioned. Thanks.... as always incredibly detailed and entertaining. Also - Hollywood? This would make a great movie! Especially given the womens roles, in-house fighting between military, Nazi failed projects to counter, accidents at production.... this would be a great film.....

I didn't know that the balloon defense games where based on real events

I was wondering what those things in battlefield were!

I don't want to set the World on fire by the Ink Spots in case anyone hasn't heard it 😅

One poor family lost their lives due to the balloon campaign by Japan. Unfortunately unlucky considering most of them failed. It did however prove that Japan discovered the headwind that circled the pacific. I forget what this high altitude Windstream is called but it was proven Japan discovered it due to this balloon campaign. Gulfstream maybe?

This was well worth my time to watch.

No mention of the Fire Kingdom using balloons to attack the air temples?

Looking dapper simon

Hi Simon have you ever done a program on contrails?

This is another great video.

Real credit has to be given to the Brits. They were all alone until 7 Dec 1941 & long before that, they were bracing for an invasion. While I never got to vist Great Britain, I've been honored to meet a bunch of their sailors while I was in the Navy & then got to have my neighbor's wife being a Brit. They're totally awesome people. 🫡 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

did they think of tying a camera to balloon?

I think I suggested this idea a while back

Fascinating stuff.

seems like it wasn't going to work, but it did

Archie later went to South Vietnam, the Viet Cong kidnapped him and he was never released.

Because “of course they did.”

I SEE THAT TOLKIEN BOOK

Hey Simon, where could a person send you some snail mail?

All i can think about is sukuna

Balloon attack to take out the North Korean power grid? 😂😂😂

simon 2.0 you shocked me with your add

Didn't that balloon thing happen a few years ago? I thought that was china

17:59 This is like saying "the British island of Great Britain". Wikipedia says "from sites on coastal Honshu" because Wikipedia can use wikilinks, but if you don't think the audience for this video would accept "from Honshu" without "the Japanese island of", then you can just say "from the Japanese mainland".

The weird added twinkling effects around the edges of the video frame are pretty annoying. Maybe don't do that?

87th

always remember your vaccination advertising video and feel disgusted