MICHAEL E. UNSWORTH

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

JAPANESE BALLOON CAMPAIGN

OF WORLD WAR II

 

Last updated : September 29, 2008  Page Editor: Michael Unsworth

General Aspects | Biological Warfare | Meteorological Aspects |
Canada | Colorado | Michigan | Montana | North Dakota |

General Aspects

Articles

"In Japan's Aerial Assault on America, Balloon-carried Bombs Produced Some Strange Results," World War II Vol. 3, no. 3 (Sept. 1988): 8, 56-62.

Film Documentaries

On a Wind and a Prayer -- interviewee and historical consultant. Broadcast on:

History Channel - UK, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Western New York Public Broadcasting Association

Lectures

Staff Seminar, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, April 8, 1992; U.S. National Archives, May 10, 1995

Online Bibliography

Quoted in:

Ron Franscell, "When Bombs Were Defeated With Silence: Media-Aided Efforts Helped End Japan's Balloon Attacks In WWII," Denver Post (December 2, 2001): 1B & 4B.

Karen Vigil, "Floating Death: WWII Terrorism Against U.S. Mainland Nearly Remains A Secret," Pueblo Chieftan (March 12th, 2002):

Radio/TV Interviews

Michigan Radio's "Stateside Program" (Feb. 18, 2004 ; rebroadcast Aug. 5, 2005)

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Television Station WZZN, November 17, 1988

Michigan Public Radio Network ‘s "Michigan at 150" June 9, 1987

East Lansing Public Radio Station WKAR, June 2, 1987

Ft. Collins, Colorado, Radio Station KUAD, September 1986

Denver, Colorado, Television Station KUSA, September 9, 1986

Biological Warfare

Lecture

American Military Institute Annual Meeting, Bethesda, Maryland, April 5, 1986

Meteorological Aspects

Lecture

Center for Aerospace Studies, University of North Dakota, April 21, 1994

Canada

Radio/TV Interviews

"Daybreak Alberta," Calgary Radio One, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, July 13, 2002
"The World This Weekend," Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio, Feb. 2, 2003.
"Absolutely Canadian," CBC Newsworld cable news station, Feb. 26, 2003.

Lectures

National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., Mar. 17, 1998
9th Military History Colloquium, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, May 2. 1998.
Association for Canadian Studies in the United States Biennial Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Nov. 1999.
13th Military History Colloquium, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, May 3, 2002
Lethbridge Historical Society/Lethbridge Public Library, Lethbridge, Alberta, July 16, 2002
Defence Research and Development Canada - Suffield, Suffield, Alberta, July 17, 2002
Medicine Hat Public Library, Medicine Hat, Alberta, July 17, 2002
Midwest Association for Canadian Studies Biennial Meeting, East Lansing, Michigan, Oct. 12, 2002
14th Military History Colloquium, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, May 9, 2003

 

Colorado

Articles

"Floating Vengeance: The World War II Japanese Balloon Attack on Colorado," Colorado Heritage (Oct. 1993): 22-35.

"Balloon Bombs Timnath," Choice : Magazine of the Front Range, Vol. 3, No. 11 (Sept. 1983), 32-35.

Lectures

Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 13, 1986

Fort Collins Public Library, Fort Collins, Colo., September 8, 1986

Delta County Historical Society, Delta, Colo., September 3, 1991

Museum of Western Colo., Grand Junction, Colo., September 4, 1991

Colorado State University Libraries, September 12, 1991

Collbran Elementary School, Collbran, Colo., September 6, 1994

Michigan

Article

"Floating Vengeance: Japanese Balloon Attacks on Michigan," Michigan History, Vol. 71, no. 2 (March/April 1987): 8-14.

Quoted in:

Daniel Pepper, ."Dorr bombed?" Allegan County News (May 12, 2004)

Lectures

Annual Meeting, Historical Society of Michigan, Farmington Hills, Michigan, October 17, 1986

Grand Rapids Historical Society, Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 10, 1987

Kalamazoo Aviation Museum, Kalamazoo, Michigan, July 15, 1995

University Club of Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, October 24, 2007.

 

Radio/TV Interviews

Michigan Radio's "Stateside Program" (Feb. 18, 2004) rebroadcast (Aug. 5, 2005)

Montana

Lectures

Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana, Missoula, May 29, 2001

North Dakota

Article

"The Japanese Balloon Bomb Campaign in North Dakota," North Dakota History Vol. 64, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 21-26.

Lecture

Dedication speaker of the Carleton Simensen Military Heritage Collection, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, April 22, 1994


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