World War II Diaries:The Complete War Report
1944 November
E63 Apr 15, 2018
The Japanese launch the strategy of sending fire balloons over the Pacific Ocean with the hope that they will reach the United States and produce massive wildfires in the West Coast woodlands. The operation will take place over five months, in the course of which more than nine thousand balloons will be sent off. Three hundred of them will reach American territory, producing hardly any damage. In Hungary, the Soviets are approaching the outskirts of Budapest. The Germans hastily transfer more than fifty thousand Jews from the capital to Austria. In the long march, which will last over a week, more than ten thousand of them are killed.