Courage Has No Color by Tanya Lee Stone

Author:Tanya Lee Stone [Stone, Tanya Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7636-6820-4
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2013-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

This balloon was recovered near Davis, California, in March 1945. It helped the military reconstruct a complete unit to study. To create this photo, the photographer moved around the balloon with flashbulbs to illuminate it in eight places. The sandbags and incendiary bombs are hanging at right.

This balloon was recovered near Alturas, California, on January 10, 1945. It was inflated for testing at Moffett Field at the naval base near San Francisco, California.

The press was asked to keep all these incidents quiet. Newsweek and Time magazines ran minor mentions, but the press generally did its part. The Japanese were fooled into thinking that their balloon bombs were not reaching America. That still didn’t stop them from spreading rumors to the contrary. The Japanese broadcast to their nation, as well as parts of Europe and China, that their balloons had claimed hundreds of lives, caused many forest fires, and frightened the American people.

Of course, the people in Bly had been frightened. Once she was finally told what had happened, Diane Jordan, sister of one of the boys who was killed, said, “We knew we were at war, but the thought of war coming right to our front door never entered our minds.” Shortly after those six deaths, officials did begin to lift the secrecy, at least in a small, controlled way. The military realized that the public needed to be quietly alerted to the danger, even though there was still a ban on major news stories.

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