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The bombing of Osaka (大阪大空襲, Ōsaka daikūshū) during the Pacific War was part of the strategic bombing air raids on Japan campaign waged by the United States against military and civilian targets and population centers in Japan. It first took place from the middle of the night on March 13, 1945, to the early morning of the next day.
On 15 April 2023, a pipe bomb exploded near Fumio Kishida, the then-prime minister of Japan, who came to the fishing port of Saikazaki, Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, in the Kansai region to give a campaign stump speech for the 2023 Wakayama 1st district by-election. Just before Kishida was to give a stump speech, a man threw a pipe bomb.
Osaka was bombed for the fourth time in the month on 15 June when 444 B-29s destroyed 1.9 square miles (4.9 km 2) of the city and another 0.59 square miles (1.5 km 2) of nearby Amagasaki; 300,000 houses were destroyed in Osaka. [141] [142] This attack marked the end of the first phase of XXI Bomber Command's attack on Japan's cities. During May ...
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An aerial view taken from a helicopter shows a crater from an explosion after a likely WW2-era bomb exploded, on a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan October 2, 2024, in ...
First lieutenant Marcus Elmo McDilda (December 15, 1921 – August 16, 1998) was an American P-51 fighter pilot who was shot down over Osaka and captured by the Japanese on 8 August 1945, two days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
In late 1943 the government of Japan developed plans to evacuate non-essential personnel from Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and the cities in northern Kyushu. Prime Minister Hideki Tōjō initially opposed implementing these plans due to the damage they were likely to cause to morale and family cohesion but eventually agreed in order to minimize ...
On August 6, 2018, the 73rd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, ... Hiroshima today looks completely different than it did 73 years ago. On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on ...