Barrage balloons were used by many countries in WW2, including Britain and the U.S., and played a vital role in the Normandy landings on D-Day.

By 1940, the Royal Air Force Balloon Command had 1,400 of these barrage balloons in its fleet, with a third flying directly above London. Meanwhile, France used them to ward off aerial attacks on ...

The base would be the one and only barrage balloon training camp in the entire United States. Henry County changed in a flash. “It was just an overnight boom town, as you might imagine,” said Fay.

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In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the all African-American 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion “landed on the beaches of France with orders to man a curtain of armed balloons meant to deter enemy ...

Japan sent 9,000 balloons with bombs over the United States in World War II. ... On D-Day, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, an African American unit, ...

The Japanese balloon bomb offensive on U.S. soil was a closely guarded secret for the latter part of World War II. It marked one of a handful of instances of Japanese attacks on U.S. soil in ...

Barrage balloons were first used in WWI, but they played a particularly key role in Britain's defenses during WWII. According to London's Imperial War Museum , Britain had 2,748 barrage balloons ...

The news soon spread — there's a barrage balloon down in Carew Road. We never found out how, ... WW2 People's War Homepage Archive List Timeline About This Site: Contact Us: The Barrage Balloon ...

A barrage balloon was three times the size of a cricket pitch. They were made in Cadington. The balloons consisted of several panels of very tight fabric, at the back were three fins.

Women at work on the balloon site. The sky over Teesside was dotted with Barrage Balloons, and we had a couple of sites not far from us, they were manned mainly by women - Airwomen I should call them.