otnmbrd wrote:
Wasn't the Oregon fire started by a balloon bomb?

They had a balloon bombing campaign, too, which could well have started
at least one forest fire. The balloon bomb campaign is sometimes
referred to as a military joke, since they killed exactly one person,
and that was a Sunday school teacher (I kid you not) but the end goal
for the Japanese was to attach atom bombs to their balloon devices.

The Japanese had discovered the jet stream and built a very clever
device to hold the balloon weapons at the right altitude for the right
length of time. They were also further along on their atom bomb project
than the Germans were, a fact not often discussed.

Regards
Doug King