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Fire balloon

Index Fire balloon

A, or, was a weapon launched by Japan during World War II. [1]

143 relations: Aerial reconnaissance, Agness, Oregon, Alaska, Alberta, Allegan County, Michigan, Altimeter, American Theater (World War II), Anthrax, Archie E. Mitchell, Arizona, Ballast, Balloon, Barium peroxide, Battle of Los Angeles, Biological agent, Bly, Oregon, Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Bomb, British Columbia, California, Canadian War Museum, Christian and Missionary Alliance, Colorado, Conscientious objector, Convair B-36 Peacemaker, Coos County, Oregon, Cowpox, Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, Detroit, Diatom, Direction finding, Doolittle Raid, Douglas C-47 Skytrain, E77 balloon bomb, Elko, Nevada, Falklands War, Fourth Air Force, Fukushima Prefecture, Gearhart Mountain Wilderness, German prisoners of war in the United States, Gunpowder, Hanford Site, Hayfork, California, History of military ballooning, History of the United States, Honshu, Hydrogen, Hydrogen production, Ibaraki Prefecture, Ichinomiya, Chiba, ..., Idaho, Imperial Japanese Army, Imperial Japanese Navy, Incendiary device, Intercontinental ballistic missile, Internment of Japanese Americans, Iowa, Iwanuma, Jet stream, Kansas, Klamath Falls, Oregon, Konjac, Lockheed P-38 Lightning, Los Angeles, Lumby, British Columbia, Magnesium, Manhattan Project, Manitoba, Medford, Oregon, Michigan, Microscope, Military Geology Unit, Military Intelligence Service (United States), Mineral, Misawa, Aomori, Mitchell Recreation Area, Modoc National Forest, Montana, Morus (plant), Mount Shasta, National Register of Historic Places, Nebraska, Nevada, Newsweek, North Dakota, Northwest Territories, Nuclear reactor, Number Nine Research Laboratory, Office of Censorship, Operation Black Buck, Operation Outward, Oregon, Ottawa, Parachute, Picric acid, Pingfang District, Port Angeles, Washington, Potassium nitrate, R-7 Semyorka, Radiosonde, RCAF Western Air Command, Reno, Nevada, Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal Canadian Navy, Sakhalin, Salt Spring Island, San Pedro, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, California, Santa Rosa, California, Saskatchewan, Silk, South Dakota, Southern Oregon, Stinson L-5 Sentinel, Submarine, Sumas Mountain, Sumo, Texas, The New Yorker, The Salt Lake Tribune, Thermite, Thermopolis, Wyoming, TNT, Trinity National Forest, Unit 731, United States Army Air Forces, United States Forest Service, United States Geological Survey, Utah, Victoria International Airport, Victoria, British Columbia, Wasaburo Oishi, Washi, Washington (state), Western Defense Command, Wildfire, Wired (magazine), World War II, Wyoming, Yerington, Nevada, Yersinia pestis, Yukon, 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (United States). Expand index (93 more) »

Aerial reconnaissance

Aerial reconnaissance is reconnaissance for a military or strategic purpose that is conducted using reconnaissance aircraft.

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Agness, Oregon

Agness is an unincorporated community in Curry County, Oregon, United States.

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Alaska

Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

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Alberta

Alberta is a western province of Canada.

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Allegan County, Michigan

Allegan County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Altimeter

An altimeter or an altitude meter is an instrument used to measure the altitude of an object above a fixed level.

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American Theater (World War II)

The American Theater describes a series of mostly minor areas of operations during World War II.

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Anthrax

Anthrax is an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.

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Archie E. Mitchell

The Reverend Archie Emerson Mitchell (born May 1, 1918) was a minister with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA).

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

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Ballast

Ballast is material that is used to provide stability to a vehicle or structure.

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Balloon

A balloon is a flexible bag that can be inflated with a gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, air or water.

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Barium peroxide

Barium peroxide is the inorganic compound with the formula BaO2.

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Battle of Los Angeles

The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as The Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to the rumored enemy attack and subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which took place from late February 24 to early February 25, 1942, over Los Angeles, California.

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Biological agent

A biological agent—also called bio-agent, biological threat agent, biological warfare agent, biological weapon, or bioweapon—is a bacterium, virus, protozoan, parasite, or fungus that can be used purposefully as a weapon in bioterrorism or biological warfare (BW).

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Bly, Oregon

Bly is an unincorporated small town in Klamath County, Oregon, United States.

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Boeing B-29 Superfortress

The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a four-engine propeller-driven heavy bomber designed by Boeing, which was flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War.

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Bomb

A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Canadian War Museum

The Canadian War Museum (CWM) (Musée canadien de la guerre) is Canada's national museum of military history.

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Christian and Missionary Alliance

The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) is an evangelical Protestant denomination within the holiness movement of Christianity.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Conscientious objector

A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion.

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Convair B-36 Peacemaker

The Convair B-36 "Peacemaker" is a strategic bomber built by Convair and operated solely by the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1949 to 1959.

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Coos County, Oregon

Coos County is a county in the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Cowpox

Cowpox is an infectious disease caused by the cowpox virus.

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Curtiss P-40 Warhawk

The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk is an American single-engined, single-seat, all-metal fighter and ground-attack aircraft that first flew in 1938.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Diatom

Diatoms (diá-tom-os "cut in half", from diá, "through" or "apart"; and the root of tém-n-ō, "I cut".) are a major group of microorganisms found in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world.

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Direction finding

Direction finding (DF), or radio direction finding (RDF), is the measurement of the direction from which a received signal was transmitted.

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Doolittle Raid

The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, on Saturday, April 18, 1942, was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on the island of Honshu during World War II, the first air operation to strike the Japanese Home Islands.

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Douglas C-47 Skytrain

The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (RAF designation) is a military transport aircraft developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3 airliner.

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E77 balloon bomb

The E77 balloon bomb was a U.S. anti-crop biological munition based on the design of Japanese fire balloons.

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Elko, Nevada

Elko (Shoshoni: Natakkoa, "Rocks Piled on One Another") is the largest city and county seat of Elko County, Nevada, United States.

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Falklands War

The Falklands War (Guerra de las Malvinas), also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis, Malvinas War, South Atlantic Conflict, and the Guerra del Atlántico Sur (Spanish for "South Atlantic War"), was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands, and its territorial dependency, the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Fourth Air Force

The Fourth Air Force (4 AF) is a numbered air force of the Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC).

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Fukushima Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region.

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Gearhart Mountain Wilderness

Gearhart Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Fremont–Winema National Forest in Lake County and Klamath County in south-central Oregon.

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German prisoners of war in the United States

Members of the German military were interned as prisoners of war in the United States during World War I and World War II.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder, also known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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Hanford Site

The Hanford Site is a decommissioned nuclear production complex operated by the United States federal government on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Hayfork, California

Hayfork is a census-designated place (CDP) in Trinity County, California, United States.

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History of military ballooning

Balloons were one of the first mechanisms used in air warfare.

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History of the United States

The history of the United States began with the settlement of Indigenous people before 15,000 BC.

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Honshu

Honshu is the largest and most populous island of Japan, located south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Straits.

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Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a chemical element with symbol H and atomic number 1.

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Hydrogen production

Hydrogen production is the family of industrial methods for generating hydrogen.

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Ibaraki Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan, located in the Kantō region.

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Ichinomiya, Chiba

is a town located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

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Idaho

Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States.

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Imperial Japanese Army

The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA; Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun; "Army of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945.

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Imperial Japanese Navy

The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, "Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 until 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's defeat and surrender in World War II.

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Incendiary device

Incendiary weapons, incendiary devices or incendiary bombs are weapons designed to start fires or destroy sensitive equipment using fire (and sometimes used as anti-personnel weaponry), that use materials such as napalm, thermite, magnesium powder, chlorine trifluoride, or white phosphorus.

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Intercontinental ballistic missile

An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads).

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Internment of Japanese Americans

The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000Various primary and secondary sources list counts between persons.

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Iowa

Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.

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Iwanuma

Iwanuma City Hall is a city located in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.

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Jet stream

Jet streams are fast flowing, narrow, meandering air currents in the atmospheres of some planets, including Earth.

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Kansas

Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.

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Klamath Falls, Oregon

Klamath Falls (Klamath: ʔiWLaLLoonʔa) is a city in and the county seat of Klamath County, Oregon, United States.

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Konjac

Konjac (or konjak) is a common name of the Asian plant Amorphophallus konjac (syn. A. rivieri), which has an edible corm (bulbo-tuber).

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Lockheed P-38 Lightning

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is a World War II-era American piston-engined fighter aircraft.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Lumby, British Columbia

Lumby is a small community of 1,731 people, located near the edge of the Monashee Mountains.

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Magnesium

Magnesium is a chemical element with symbol Mg and atomic number 12.

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Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.

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Manitoba

Manitoba is a province at the longitudinal centre of Canada.

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Medford, Oregon

Medford is a city in, and county seat of, Jackson County, Oregon, United States.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

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Microscope

A microscope (from the μικρός, mikrós, "small" and σκοπεῖν, skopeîn, "to look" or "see") is an instrument used to see objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye.

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Military Geology Unit

The Military Geology Unit was a unit in the United States military during World War II.

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Military Intelligence Service (United States)

The Military Intelligence Service (陸軍情報部) was a World War II U.S. military unit consisting of two branches, the Japanese American Unit described here and the German-Austrian Unit based at Camp Ritchie, described partly in Ritchie Boys.

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Mineral

A mineral is a naturally occurring chemical compound, usually of crystalline form and not produced by life processes.

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Misawa, Aomori

is a city located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan.

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Mitchell Recreation Area

Mitchell Recreation Area is a small picnic area located in the Fremont-Winema National Forests, Lake County, Oregon, near the unincorporated community of Bly.

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Modoc National Forest

The Modoc National Forest is a national forest in northeastern California.

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Montana

Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States.

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Morus (plant)

Morus, a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, comprises 10–16 species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions.

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Mount Shasta

Mount Shasta (Karuk: Úytaahkoo or "White Mountain") is a potentially active volcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.

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North Dakota

North Dakota is a U.S. state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States.

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Northwest Territories

The Northwest Territories (NT or NWT; French: les Territoires du Nord-Ouest, TNO; Athabaskan languages: Denendeh; Inuinnaqtun: Nunatsiaq; Inuktitut: ᓄᓇᑦᓯᐊᖅ) is a federal territory of Canada.

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Nuclear reactor

A nuclear reactor, formerly known as an atomic pile, is a device used to initiate and control a self-sustained nuclear chain reaction.

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Number Nine Research Laboratory

The, also called the, was a military development laboratory run by the Imperial Japanese Army from 1937 to 1945.

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Office of Censorship

The Office of Censorship was an emergency wartime agency set up on December 19, 1941 to aid in the censorship of all communications coming into and going out of the United States.

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Operation Black Buck

During the 1982 Falklands War, Operations Black Buck 1 to Black Buck 7 were a series of seven extremely long-range ground attack missions by Royal Air Force (RAF) Vulcan bombers of the RAF Waddington Wing, comprising aircraft from Nos 44, 50 and 101 Squadrons against Argentine positions in the Falkland Islands, of which five missions completed attacks.

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Operation Outward

Operation Outward was the name given to the British World War II program to attack Germany by means of free-flying balloons.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.

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Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.

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Parachute

A parachute is a device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creating drag (or in the case of ram-air parachutes, aerodynamic lift).

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Picric acid

Picric acid is an organic compound with the formula (O2N)3C6H2OH.

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Pingfang District

Pingfang District is one of nine districts of Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, forming part of the city's urban core.

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Port Angeles, Washington

Port Angeles is a city in and the county seat of Clallam County, Washington, United States.

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Potassium nitrate

Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula KNO3.

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R-7 Semyorka

The R-7 (Р-7 "Семёрка") was a Soviet missile developed during the Cold War, and the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile.

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Radiosonde

A radiosonde is a battery-powered telemetry instrument package carried into the atmosphere usually by a weather balloon that measures various atmospheric parameters and transmits them by radio to a ground receiver.

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RCAF Western Air Command

Western Air Command was the part of the Royal Canadian Air Force's Home War Establishment responsible for air operations on the Pacific coast of Canada during the Second World War.

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Reno, Nevada

Reno is a city in the U.S. state of Nevada, located in the western part of the state, approximately from Lake Tahoe.

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Royal Canadian Air Force

The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; Aviation royale canadienne, ARC) is the air force of Canada.

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Royal Canadian Navy

The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN; French: Marine royale canadienne) is the naval force of Canada.

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Sakhalin

Sakhalin (Сахалин), previously also known as Kuye Dao (Traditional Chinese:庫頁島, Simplified Chinese:库页岛) in Chinese and in Japanese, is a large Russian island in the North Pacific Ocean, lying between 45°50' and 54°24' N.

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Salt Spring Island

Salt Spring Island (also known as Saltspring Island) is one of the Gulf Islands in the Strait of Georgia between mainland British Columbia, Canada and Vancouver Island.

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San Pedro, Los Angeles

San Pedro is a community within the city of Los Angeles, California.

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Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Santa Rosa, California

Santa Rosa (lit. Spanish for "Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, California, United States.

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Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie and boreal province in western Canada, the only province without natural borders.

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Silk

Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.

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South Dakota

South Dakota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Southern Oregon

Southern Oregon is a region of the U.S. state of Oregon south of Lane County and generally west of the Cascade Range, excluding the southern Oregon Coast.

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Stinson L-5 Sentinel

The Stinson L-5 Sentinel was a World War II era liaison aircraft used by all branches of the U.S. military and by the British Royal Air Force.

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Submarine

A submarine (or simply sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

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Sumas Mountain

Sumas Mountain is a mountain located in Whatcom County, Washington, 15 miles northeast of Bellingham and southwest of Vedder Mountain.

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Sumo

or sumo wrestling is a competitive full-contact wrestling sport where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring (dohyō) or into touching the ground with anything other than the soles of his feet.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Salt Lake Tribune

The Salt Lake Tribune is a daily newspaper published in the city of Salt Lake City, Utah, with the largest weekday circulation but second largest Sunday circulation behind the Deseret News.

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Thermite

Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of metal powder, which serves as fuel, and metal oxide.

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Thermopolis, Wyoming

Thermopolis is the largest town in Hot Springs County, Wyoming, United States, and also the county seat.

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TNT

Trinitrotoluene (TNT), or more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3.

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Trinity National Forest

Trinity National Forest was established as the Trinity Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in California on April 26, 1905 with.

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Unit 731

was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) of World War II.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.

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United States Forest Service

The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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Victoria International Airport

Victoria International Airport serves Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

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Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria, the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, is on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast.

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Wasaburo Oishi

was a Japanese meteorologist.

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Washi

is traditional Japanese paper.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Western Defense Command

Western Defense Command (WDC) was established on 17 March 1941 as the command formation of the U.S. Army responsible for coordinating the defense of the Pacific Coast region of the United States.

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Wildfire

A wildfire or wildland fire is a fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or rural area.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Wyoming

Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States.

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Yerington, Nevada

Yerington is a city in Lyon County, Nevada, United States.

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Yersinia pestis

Yersinia pestis (formerly Pasteurella pestis) is a Gram-negative, non-motile rod-shaped coccobacillus, with no spores.

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Yukon

Yukon (also commonly called the Yukon) is the smallest and westernmost of Canada's three federal territories (the other two are the Northwest Territories and Nunavut).

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555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (United States)

The 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion was an all-black airborne unit of the United States Army during World War II.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon

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