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I wonder if this would be easier today with conductive mylar.
Interesting, being from the western U.S. I'd only heard of Japanese fire balloons before. Not surprising that other combatants tried the same concept.
I think the hacker name for physically attacking power lines is 'darkening'

Short lived, in Europe. Never really took off. And mostly wire and a rock.