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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.
In 1944, the bombing of Japan from the Soviet Union by American aircraft with American or Soviet crews was considered. Following a request from Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference, Stalin agreed on 2 February 1944 that the United States could operate 1,000 bombers from Siberia after the Soviet Union had declared war on Japan. [64]
See: Bombing of Tokyo: Osaka: Japan: 13–14 March 1945 3,987 United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Twentieth Air Force: Firestorm. See: Bombing of Osaka. Würzburg: Germany: 16 March 1945 5,000 Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command: Firestorm. See: Bombing of Würzburg in World War II. Kobe: Japan: 16–17 March 1945 8,841 [25]
The Enemy Airmen's Act was a law passed by Imperial Japan on 13 August 1942 which stated that Allied airmen participating in bombing raids against Japanese-held territory would be treated as "violators of the law of war" and subject to trial and punishment if captured by Japanese forces.
An unexploded bomb dropped during World War II and subsequently buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday morning. This damaged a runway and canceled more than 80 flights, but no one was ...
The museum was established in 1991 and was rare in Japan for showing the atrocities committed by Japan as well as the tragedies suffered by Japanese people. [4] In 2000 it hosted a symposium by the Osaka-based historical revisionist group "Society to Correct the Biased Display of War-Related Materials" with Shūdō Higashinakano of Asia University as the keynote speaker.
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11: Schiermonnikoog, a Dutch island, is the last part of Europe freed by Allied troops. 13: The Australians capture Brunei.: Japanese Admiral Ota Minoru, along with thousands of his surrounded Naval brigade, commits ritual suicide for failing to defend Okinawa, Japan. [1] 15: Osaka, Japan, is heavily bombed.