Operation Outward was a British campaign of the Second World War that attacked Germany and German-occupied Europe with free-flying balloons. It made use of cheap, simple balloons filled with hydrogen and carrying either a trailing steel wire to damage high-voltage power lines by producing a short circuit, or incendiary devices to start fires in fields, forests and heathland.
Operation Outward was a British campaign of the Second World War that attacked Germany and German-occupied Europe with free-flying balloons. It made use of cheap, simple balloons filled with hydrogen and carrying either a trailing steel wire to damage high-voltage power lines by producing a short circuit, or incendiary devices to start fires in fields, forests and heathland.
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