that's the billy mitchell that you see in the statue, the historic billy mitchell who was famous for demonstrating that airplanes could sink battle ships and sort of predicting that air power was the wave of the future. he was also incredibly controversial, of course. he was in constant battle with naval officers who didn't always agree with billy mitchell's point of view. or when they did agree with his point of view, saw it moving more in the navy's direction than the army's. but certainly an incredible voice for american air power in the early years of the 20th century. in this case, we have a japanese balloon bomb, a fugo balloon bomb. in 1944 and 1945, as the americans had begunfire bombfir gentlemanen japan, burning cities to the ground, the japanese came up with the notion in returning that kind of thing to the americans which turned out to be a small way. these balloons were built in japan. they were laumnched from sea coast cities around japan. the balloon -- there is just the bomb and the instrument package -- was actually built out of mulberry paper, paper that was made ou