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TIL about Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night (or Op PX). It was a biological attacked plan by the Imperial Japanese Navy to use seaplanes to deliver weaponized Bubonic Plague to the Western Coast of United States. The plan was abandoned and briefly reconsidered after the Japanese surrender to US.

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