Barrage balloon, a tethered balloon intended to present an obstacle to attacking aircraft
In 1942 Canadian and American forces began joint operations to protect the sensitive locks and shipping channel at Sault Ste. Marie along their common border among the Great Lakes against possible air attack.
The Second World War brought another boom with the production of millions of civilian gas masks and barrage-balloon fabric.
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In February 1943, a Lancaster bomber hit the cable of a barrage balloon and crashed without survivors on the return from a raid on the U-boat pens at Lorient.