On the eve of Victory Day, part 3

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Found a lot of photos of balloons. Stopped on a selection of German and British:
Balloons artillery observation (Fesselballon)



Pilots






This golden badge is awarded for 75 balloonist combat podёmov.

Balloons air barrier. Just as we and the British at the end of the war starting calculations were almost entirely female.






Were also used propaganda balloons to throw the front line flyers.

BRITISH.


Number of barrage balloons tethered in the UK during the war was enormous.


Served with barrage balloons, as well as in the USSR, mostly girls from the women's auxiliary air force, although there were also purely male parts.
Very well demonstrated barrage balloons while protecting London from cruise missiles "V-1» .

Women serve in the auxiliary air force was considered honorable and prestigious business enough. In volunteers recorded and girls with the city suburbs and daughters of the best families in Britain.






Pilots wore a sign air balloon observer.


Also went through the Strait every day hundreds and thousands of unmanned balloons with propaganda leaflets.



PS As you know, the Japanese differ originality in solving certain problems.
And during the war, they are very much tortured American air sharami.

The decision was very simple - hydrogen filled balloon with bombs. Drifts itself to the United States, and dropped bombs.