Thread: Trivia Question For Ya!

There have been three attacks on this country by foreign fighters.
!. Pearl Harbor
2. The 9/11 attacks
3. What was the third?

When Celine Dion released her first album.

had to say it but honestly I don't know

The British in the Revolutionary war

"BadlandsViking" wrote:

The British in the Revolutionary war

Gads, your right BLV but I forgot to say third attack since Pearl Harbor.
Try again.

The first World Trade Center bombing? The one set off in the parking garages?

You got it Ultrapurple. 1993 the first attack on the Word Trade Center. Congratulations!

"COJOMAY" wrote:

There have been three attacks on this country by foreign fighters.
!. Pearl Harbor
2. The 9/11 attacks
3. What was the third?

I see that someone else has identified the '93 WTC bombing as the 3rd.

However, I am gonna learn you all some history today, about things that not a lot of folks know.

We'll start with "Balloon Bombs".

http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=932

Balloon bombs against the US

by Greg Goebel



When General Jimmy Doolittle led his B-25 bombers in a sneak raid over Japan in the spring of 1942, he set into motion a chain of events that would result in one of the more bizarre stories of World War II: the Japanese attempt to attack the continental United States by bomb-carrying balloons, floating across the entire Pacific Ocean.

From the late fall of 1944 through the early spring of 1945, the Japanese launched more than 9,000 of these "fire balloons", of which 300 were found or observed in the US. Some guesswork gives the total number that made the trip at about 1,000. Despite the high hopes of their designers, the balloons were totally ineffective as weapons, and survive in memory only as an ingenious and malevolent curiosity.

This document provides a short history of the Japanese fire balloon offensive against America.

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