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Protecting the Beaches with Balloons: D-Day and the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion | National Air and Space Museum
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Barrage balloon, Seattle, 1942 - Museum of History and Industry - University of Washington Digital Collections
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Lighter than air: 3 barrage balloons, one airship, and the rest are blimps. | Airship, Zeppelin airship, Airship balloon
How were barrage balloons a deterrent to strafing by low-flying German aircraft during the D-Day invasion? Wouldn't an airplane that couldn't avoid one easily cut it to pieces? - Quora
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