在1942年，日本陆军悄然在中国东北边境上释放了许多装有炸弹的小型气球，以利用风力将它们送往苏联腹地。这些偷袭行动展现了日本对远程攻击的野心。此后，在1943年，他们继续使用这种方法向美国本土发起攻击，从而全面启动了所谓的“飞象行动”。
为了让气球穿越太平洋并抵达美国，Japanese military technology and meteorology collaborated to create massive balloons. These balloons stood 10 meters tall, with a diameter of 5 meters, made from rice paper strengthened by chili roots. They utilized winter winds between November and March as their propulsion force. Japan's domestic and regional chili root supplies were requisitioned for this purpose.
Each balloon required 600 sheets of paper to form its spherical shape, necessitating hundreds of thousands of laborers to produce just one million balloons. The balloons were equipped with altitude regulators, bombs, incendiary devices, and radio altimeters that allowed the base to track the flight path and destination of the explosive devices.
To manufacture these giant hydrogen-filled bombs on a large scale, Japanese authorities occupied prominent buildings in Tokyo such as the Imperial Palace Grounds, theaters like Toho Theatre and Teikoku Theatre, International Cinematography Hall (Kokusai Eigakan), etc., mobilizing artisans who wrapped scrolls (fukuro), female students, factory workers including prostitutes for this work.
Millions of people produced vast quantities of these colossal hydrogen-filled explosive devices capable of generating a lift force of 300 kilograms at sea level height; they could rise up to an altitude of approximately 33 kilometers or more than 10 km above sea level propelled by wind currents at speeds reaching up to 120 miles per hour within four days after launch they could reach Washington D.C., Oregon or Montana in America.
On September 25th in the year following that fateful day when war was declared upon us all over again — but it is not yet time for me now — our esteemed General Meiji Miyazawa gave orders for creating special teams dedicated solely towards launching these gas balloons into space using advanced technology developed through long years' research conducted under his direct supervision & guidance
The main team was deployed near Lake Biwa while other teams were stationed along various Pacific coastal regions such as Yumurano Ichiyama Mineo Tsukigata Kizugawa Oi Station Hiroshima Fukuoka Nagasaki Yokohama Shizuoka Aichi Gifu Mie Niigata Akita Hokkaido
Orders given by General Miyazawa included attacking during early November till late March next year beginning from November first day onwards dropping explosives including around seven thousand five hundred units weighing fifteen kilograms each twenty-five thousand five-hundred units weighing five kilograms each seventy-two hundred twelve-kilogram incendiaries totaling one-point-six million pieces over half-year period starting from eleven month initial date until second month final date
It is worth noting that both American archives confirm multiple instances where those dangerous gas filled explosives did indeed make landfall causing forest fires resulting in casualties among humans animals alike prompting concerns about potential psychological impact on general populace especially fear among Americans fearing further escalation perhaps leading them even more strongly believe there must be some sort-of truth behind rumors claiming 'Flying Elephant' attacks would become much larger scale operations aimed directly against United States itself thus taking decisive measures ensuring no information regarding 'Flying Elephant Action' would ever see light nor spread throughout either nation
