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TIL about the only combat casualties to occur on U.S. soil during World War II. It occurred on May 5, 1945 in rural Oregon when a Japanese high altitude balloon bomb was discovered by a group of picnic goers. One of the them touched the bomb and it detonated killing 6.

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