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balloon barrage
noun
- a series of moored balloons, usually strung together and hung with cables, for impeding a low-level attack by enemy aircraft.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of balloon barrage1
First recorded in 1915–20
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Fighters chase the Things to the edges of a balloon barrage that would scare off a bomber pilot.
What might the balloon barrage accomplish?
The balloon barrage had proved its mettle.
What it had were three fluid fortresses: the R. A. F., the balloon barrage, antiaircraft batteries.
It took 17 days to make a single shot of London's embattled Tower Bridge, and the completed sequence shows part of London's balloon barrage hovering in the sky.
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