After Doolittle's Raid, in which 16 B-25 B Mitchell Medium Bombers bombed the Japanese mainland in April of 1942, the Japanese retaliated by sending over 6300 floated incendiary devices towards the United States. About 1000 of them reached the coast and of those 250 were accounted for. The idea was they would float on the prevailing wind currents and wreak havoc over the U.S. Some of them exploded. In the casse of the bomb over Omaha, no one was injured. However in Portland a family was killed. The devices were not reported for fear the Japanese would gather information based on the sitings. As they were not reported the Japanese became discouraged and stopped sending them.
This is the corner in Omaha where a bomb exploded. 5003 Underwood.
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