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Allied naval bombardments of Japan Part of the Japan campaign, Pacific War USS Indiana bombarding Kamaishi, Japan on 14 July 1945 Date July–August 1945 Location Four Japanese cities and several military facilities and towns Result Allied victory Belligerents United States United Kingdom New Zealand Japan Casualties and losses 32 (POWs killed in the bombardments of Kamaishi) Up to 1,739 ...
Operation Downfall was the proposed Allied plan for the invasion of the Japanese home islands near the end of World War II. The planned operation was canceled when Japan surrendered following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki , the Soviet declaration of war , and the invasion of Manchuria . [ 1 ]
During World War II, 1.2 million African Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces and 708 were killed in action. 350,000 American women served in the Armed Forces during World War II and 16 were killed in action. [342] During World War II, 26,000 Japanese-Americans served in the Armed Forces and over 800 were killed in action. [343]
Estimate of Japanese casualties from Allied air raids USSBS, Medical Division (1947) The Effects of Bombing on Health and Medical Services in Japan: 333,000 killed, 473,000 wounded [283] USSBS, Morale Division (1947) The Effects of Strategic Bombing on Japanese Morale: 900,000 killed, 1.3 million injured [288] Japanese Government (1949) 323,495 ...
In the air force over a half of losses were non-combat losses." [4] British Empire. United Kingdom: Europe 22,010 (including 10,045 fighters and 11,965 bombers) [3] Australia, Pacific and South East Asia: 250 [5] United States: Total losses were nearly 95,000, including 52,951 operational losses (38,418 in Europe and 14,533 in the Pacific). [3]
The Japanese military before and during World War II committed numerous atrocities against civilian and military personnel. Its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, prior to a declaration of war and without warning killed 2,403 neutral military personnel and civilians and wounded 1,247 others.
Operation Ke (ケ号作戦, Ke-gō Sakusen) [3] was the largely successful withdrawal of Japanese forces from Guadalcanal, concluding the Guadalcanal Campaign of World War II. The operation took place between 14 January and 7 February 1943, and involved both Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) forces under the overall ...
Foreign military observers estimated Chinese losses at much lower at some 20,000 killed and wounded, whilst also claiming Japanese casualties of around 30,000. [17] Military historian Michael Clodfelter estimates a total of around 50,000 Japanese casualties sustained in the fighting. [19]