| Shooting Down A Kite Balloon | 
						
						
							| Bruce Ungerland | 
						
						
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							Accession Number: 2003-082-02 
									Original work: Painting, Oil on Wood 
									Original size: 50 by 43 inches  
									 
									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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