Today in World War II History—November 3, 1939 & 1944
Sunday, November 3, 2024 by Sarah Sundin
Japanese Fu-go bomb-carrying balloon reinflated at Moffett Field, CA, after it had been shot down by a US Navy aircraft, 10 January 1945 (US Army photo A 37180C)
85 Years Ago—Nov. 3, 1939: Royal Navy chases Nazi-captured US freighter City of Flint into harbor at Haugesund, Norway, where she is seized by Norwegian sailors.
Movie premiere of John Ford historical drama Drums Along the Mohawk, starring Henry Fonda & Claudette Colbert.
80 Years Ago—Nov. 3, 1944: Canadians clear Breskens Pocket on the Scheldt Estuary in the Netherlands, taking 12,500 POWs.
Japanese begin releasing 9,000 Fu-go bomb-carrying balloons to float to the US (285 will explode in US over the next several months).
