Elsie Mitchell and five children she was watching were killed by a Japanese balloon bomb as they dragged it from the woods which drifted over the Pacific into Oregon on May 5, 1945. They were the only people killed by enemy attack on the US mainland during World War II. May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe...
ElsieMitchell was a minister's wife who was killed, along with five children she was watching, by a Japanese balloon bomb which had drifted over the Pacific into Oregon, on May 5, 1945.
ElsieMitchell, 26; Edward Engen, 13; Jay Gifford, 13; Joan Patzke, 13; Dick Patzke, 14; and Sherman Shoemaker, 11
A memorial, the Mitchell Monument, is located seventy miles northeast of Klamath Falls and thirty minutes north of Bly.
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