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Like most strategic bombing during World War II, the aim of the air offensive against Japan was to destroy the enemy's war industries, kill or disable civilian employees of these industries, and undermine civilian morale. [39] [40] Over the next six months, the XXI Bomber Command under LeMay firebombed 64 Japanese cities. [41]
The bombing of Tokyo (東京空襲, Tōkyō kūshū) was a series of air raids on Japan launched by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific Theatre of World War II in 1944–1945, prior to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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]
An explosion occurred after a U.S. bomb from World War II detonated at an airport in Japan on Wednesday, Oct. 2. The incident happened at Miyazaki Airport, a former Imperial Japanese Navy base ...
On the night of 9/10 March 1945, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) conducted a devastating firebombing raid on Tokyo, the Japanese capital city.This attack was code-named Operation Meetinghouse by the USAAF and is known as the Tokyo Great Air Raid (東京大空襲, Tōkyō dai-kūshū) in Japan. [1]
Tsuchizaki air raid memorial. The bombing of Akita (秋田空襲, Akita-kūshū), also known as the Tsuchizaki Air Raid (土崎大空襲, Tsuchizaki-Dai-kūshū), on the night of August 14, 1945, was part of the strategic bombing air raids on Japan campaign waged by the United States against military and civilian targets and population centers during the Japan home islands campaign in the ...
Just earlier this week, the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force detonated and disposed of a World War II-era bomb that had been discovered at a construction site in the city of Naha in Japan's ...
The bombing of Nagoya (名古屋大空襲, Nagoya daikūshū) by the United States Army Air Forces took place as part of the air raids on Japan during the closing months of the Pacific War in 1945. 1944-45 "Hesitation Upwind", Nagoya Bombing Mission narrated by Ronald Reagan, First Motion Picture Unit Training Film, U.S. Army Air Forces