# Death from the Air - 1945 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 19, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-from-the-air-1945/638279 "2012-10-19T22:04:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-from-the-air-1945/638279/1 "2012-10-19T22:04:11Z")
For some reason, I am amazed by these photos and the newspaper article. A few years later and this would have been Top Secret stuff. But in the fall of 1945, they helped sell Victory Bonds. [Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka (Baka Bomb)](http://i.imgur.com/ejtaJ.jpg) [Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg - piloted V1](http://i.imgur.com/pIi3N.jpg) [V2 (front)](http://i.imgur.com/VT3pG.jpg) [V2 (rear)](http://i.imgur.com/aIkUX.jpg) (Photos taken in Port Allegany, PA - about 60 miles west of Wellsboro and posted to a Facebook group.) Thursday, November 8, 1945. **SECRET WEAPON EXHIBIT STIRS ARDOR IN VICTORY LOAN DRIVE** German V-2 Rocket Bomb and Japanese Baka Bomb, Kamikasi Suicide Plane included in Victory Bond exhibit sponsored by U. S. Treasury. [removed copyrighted material] ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-from-the-air-1945/638279/2 "2012-10-19T23:05:04Z")
wow… ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-from-the-air-1945/638279/3 "2012-10-20T06:48:14Z")
> [@jasg](#): > > [Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg - piloted V1](http://i.imgur.com/pIi3N.jpg) Damn thing looks like Shatner’s Enterprise. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-from-the-air-1945/638279/4 "2012-10-20T13:18:48Z")
**jasg** , rather than cutting and pasting huge swaths of text, either paraphrase in your own words or provide a link to where the material is posted elsewhere online. **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-from-the-air-1945/638279/5 "2012-10-20T14:03:00Z")
> [@Kenm](#): > > Damn thing looks like Shatner’s Enterprise. :dubious: . . . ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-from-the-air-1945/638279/6 "2012-10-20T15:14:08Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > …provide a link to where the material is posted … Yes - we would like to read this. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-from-the-air-1945/638279/7 "2012-10-21T16:54:02Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > Yes - we would like to read this. > **[Wellsboro Gazette Newspaper Archives | NewspaperArchive](https://newspaperarchive.com/search/location/us/pa/wellsboro/wellsboro-gazette/)** > > Read 1874-2021 Wellsboro Gazette Newspaper Archives from Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. Genealogy and family history records include: obituaries, births, & marriages. After checking with the Mods, I can only post the above link. (Your local library may have access to the scanned page). At the bottom you will find the unformatted, raw OCR’d text of the newspaper page. The main portion of the article can be picked out. To avoid any copyright issues, you will have to do it yourself. The main block of text starts with the string “German V-2 Rocket Bomb”. The article also included the names of the service personnel who accompanied the display. They were: Lt. (jg) Clyde “Sandy” Sanders Charles D. Cowan Pfc. USMC Eugene Williamson AOM 1/c USNR Charles Edward Schafer S 1/c USNR Plater T. Gedney AMM 3/c (CA) USNR Charles Watkins AMM 2/c USN ---
**Author:** ![Ohkajoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/0ea827/32.png) [@Ohkajoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ohkajoe)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-from-the-air-1945/638279/8 "2020-06-15T15:13:37Z")
jasg, Hi, I’m an aviation historian specialising Japanese aircraft. I am currently compiling my latest book on the Ohka Special Attack aircraft, or “Baka-bomb” to use the American name. I would very much like to use your Baka photo (taken in Port Allegany, PA.) in the book, as I include a section tracing the movements of the 11 Ohka airframes that were taken back to the USA for evaluation. Would it be possible to get a high scan of the image? Regards, Joe ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-from-the-air-1945/638279/9 "2020-06-15T19:09:09Z")
The V1 and V2 were hardly a secret: thousands of people had seen V1s during their use in 1944, and the initial story about the V2 explosions (that they were gas mains blowing up) didn’t last for more than a few weeks. Besides, the Germans had been boasting about their “wonder weapons”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-from-the-air-1945/638279/10 "2020-06-16T02:15:42Z")
> [@Ohkajoe](#): > > jasg, > Hi, I’m an aviation historian specialising Japanese aircraft. I am currently compiling my latest book on the Ohka Special Attack aircraft, or “Baka-bomb” to use the American name. > I would very much like to use your Baka photo (taken in Port Allegany, PA.) in the book, as I include a section tracing the movements of the 11 Ohka airframes that were taken back to the USA for evaluation. > Would it be possible to get a high scan of the image? > Regards, > Joe In case you hadn’t noticed, the post you responded to was written eight years ago. But the good news is jasg still posts on this board. If he doesn’t notice that you’ve re-opened the thread, you can contact him directly by clicking on his name in the post and sending him a message. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-from-the-air-1945/638279/11 "2020-06-16T03:39:52Z")
> [@](#): > > Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg - piloted V1 Holy crud, the Germans built kamikaze rockets? Shades of the Japanese [Kaiten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiten)!