Shooting Down a Kite Balloon
![A biplane flys above a blimp that has caught fire A biplane flys above a blimp that has caught fire](/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/art/exhibits/conflicts-and-operations/wwi/the-united-states-navy-in-world-war-i/shooting-down-a-kite-balloon/_jcr_content/mediaitem/image.img.jpg/1506086294390.jpg)
Kite balloons were aerodynamically shaped non-rigid gas bags which carried a basket below for an observer. In the Navy, they were flown off of ships to help detect U-boats. The observer in the basket had a telephone line that ran in the balloon’s tether to the ship below.
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- World War I 1917-1918
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