Tokyo firestorm – deadliest bombing raid ever B29A30BN () on a longrange mission in 1945 In November 1944 the USAAF' largest bomber, the B29 Superfortress, had become operational from airfields on the Marianna islands and were now within range of Tokyo Previously they had operated from bases in China which were not withinHowever, the air raids of March 1945, and particularly on the night of March 9, were a different story altogether In what is generally referred to as strategic or area bombing, waves of bombers flew low over Tokyo for over two and a half hours, dropping incendiary bombs with the intention of producing a massive firestorm (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, Eugene Hoshiko) This combo of two photos shows initial destruction and reconstruction after the March 10,1945 firebombing The top photo taken on shows an incendiary bombdevastated area and Sumidagawa Bridge after Tokyo firebombing
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Support Our Channel https//wwwpatreoncom/PeriscopeFilmNarrated by thenactor and later President of the United States Ronald Reagan, TARGET TOKYO presenFlakRiddled B29 of 21st BC after raid on Tokyo 1945 Published at 1155 × 917 px Link to fullsize photo FlakRiddled B29 of 21st BC after raid on Tokyo 1945 Site statistics Photos of World War II over aircraft 63 models tanks 59 models vehicles 59 models While the March 910, 1945, bombing of Tokyo was the deadliest raid of the war, for sheer totality of destruction it was eclipsed by the , firebomb raid on Toyama More than 99% of
The US bombing of Tokyo during World War II took place between 1942 and 1945 The first raid on Tokyo was the Doolittle Raid of when sixteen B25 Mitchells were launched from the USS Hornet (CV8) to attack targets including Yokohama and Tokyo and then fly on to airfields in ChinaThe raids were military pinpricks but a significant propaganda victory 1945 In the single deadliest air raid of World War II, 330 American B29s rain incendiary bombs on Tokyo, touching off a firestorm that kills upwards of 100,000 people, burns a The fire raids on Japan started in 1945The fire raids were ordered by General Curtis LeMay, who some see as the 'Bomber Harris' of the Pacific War, in response to the difficulty B29 crews had in completing pinpoint strategic bombing over Japanese cities LeMay, therefore, decided that blanket bombing raids on cities to undermine the morale of civilians were an
The atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have dominated the retelling of WWII history, but as a single attack the bombing of Tokyo in March 1945 was more destructiveMission 11 25 The mission was a night incendiary raid on downtown Tokyo and nearby waterfront The visual bomb run was made at 9,100 feet in clear weather Searchlights picked up four minutes short of the target and remained on us for a total of nine minutes One fighter made a pass at us over the target and several others were seen Tokyo Radio, which quoted an official Jap communique as saying the raid on the capital had lasted from 7 AM to 4 PM yesterday, described the naval bombardment of Iwo Jima as the prelude to an invasion of that island, and a step to insure US fighterplane protection for Superforts striking from the Marianas against Japan
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The Tokyo raid, codenamed Operation Meetinghouse, began an aerial onslaught so effective that the American air command concluded by July 1945 that no viable targets remained on the Japanese mainland But if the American objective was to shorten the war by demoralizing the Japanese population and breaking its will to resist, it didn't work Municipalities with the next highest death tolls were Tokyo, which recorded 94,225 fatalities during the Great Tokyo Air Raid on and other raids, Nagasaki in southwestern Japan withThe first lowlevel B29 raid on Tokyo introduced a terrifying new tactic in the war against Japan On the night of March 910, 1945, US Twentieth Air Force B29s burned down 7 percent of Tokyo and killed some 85,000 people Probably no one on Major General Curtis LeMay's staff in the Mariana Islands expected the Japanese to capitulate in
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Worse than the Nuclear Strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, The Tokyo Fire Raid 0100 Hrs Local, Tokyo, Japan March 910, 1945 All of Tokyo is a funeral On this day in 1945, the United States Army Air Forces launches an unprecedented air raid on Tokyo, Japan To date, it remains the single deadliest bombing raid in history—worse even than the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki later that year Unfortunately, the Japanese government still refused to surrender The US th Air Force faced serious challenges in the early part of 19451 April 1945 Easter Day, 1945 came on April 1st, the day of the invasion of Okinawa The air group's planes were in the air as the first waves of Marines stormed the beach, beginning an air support operation that was to continue for 70 days During this period, steppedup kamikaze raids provided several "fielddays" for BENNINGTON fighter pilots
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Firestorm Hell A Gunner Describes the Superfortress Raid on Tokyo William Carter, a Gunner aboard a US B29 bomber, lived throughA successful incendiary raid required ideal weather that included dry air and significant wind Weather reports predicted these conditions over Tokyo on the night of March 910, 1945 A force of 334 B29s was unleashed each plane stripped of ammunition for its machine guns to allow it to carry more firebombsHowever, the air raids of March 1945, and particularly on the night of March 9, were a different story altogether In what is generally referred to as strategic or area bombing, waves of bombers flew low over Tokyo for over two and a half hours, dropping incendiary bombs with the intention of producing a massive firestorm
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Firebombing of Tokyo On the night of , US warplanes launch a new bombing offensive against Japan, dropping 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo over the course of the next 48The Great Tokyo Air Raid and the Bombing of Civilians in World War II The Asahi Shimbun The firebombing of Tokyo on the night of March 910, 1945 touched off the wave of firebombing that destroyed 64 Japanese cities and culminated in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and NagasakiThe first such raid on Tokyo was in February 1945 when 174 B29s destroyed around one square mile (16 km²) of Tokyo The next month, 334 B29s took off to raid on the night of 9–10 March ("Operation Meetinghouse"), with 279 of them dropping
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He was in Tokyo on the night of and published a book recounting his experiences, "I Saw Tokyo Burning" This is his description of the start of the raid as the sound of airraid sirens pierce the night and the first B29s make their appearance " They set to work at once sowing the sky with fire Bursts of light flashedOn the night of 9–10 March 1945, the US Air Forces conducted the deadliest air raid on Tokyo's civilians It was the single most destructive bombing raid in human history An estimated 100,000 civilians died, and millions were made homeless This attack was codenamed Operation Meetinghouse by the USAAF and is known as the Great Tokyo Air These techniques proved fiendishly successful, and in the first such raid a square mile of the capital city of Tokyo was burned to the ground On the night of March 910, 1945 the massive number of planes combined with dry and windy conditions spelled disaster for Tokyo
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The British/American bombing of Dresden took place between February 1315, 1945 during the final months of World War II The bombing was controversial because Dresden—a historic city located in1945 Tokyo Raids Pilots in a Ready Room in a TF 58 carrier, Page 2 of 2 < Previous 1 2 As a night carrier, Enterprise's primary role during the daylight hours was to provide Combat Air Patrol for the Task Force Night Air Group 90, however, was then at the cutting edge of electronic warfare, and launched several secretThe first such raid was against Kobe on 4 February 1945 Tokyo was hit by incendiaries on 25 February 1945 when 174 B29s flew a high altitude raid during daylight hours and destroyed around 643 acres (260 ha) (26 sq Km) of the snowcovered city, using 4537 tons of mostly incendiaries with some fragmentation bombs
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Unlike the Doolittle Raid, which was intended to be a morale booster for the home front and partial retribution for Pearl Harbor, the February 1945 Tokyo raids had a more concrete purpose On February 19, just three days away, Marines of the 3rd, 4th464 American B29 bombers conducted a raid on Tokyo, Japan 26 aircraft were lost, which was the highest oneday loss American B25 bombers from Okinawa conducted a raid on Tokyo, Japan, while 454 B29 bombers (escorted by 101 P51 fighters) firebombed Yokohama, JapanDauntless Dottie led the first night raid on Tokyo on November 24, and would fly again over Tokyo on The November 24 raid, while hyped beyond belief, did little damage Incredibly fierce winds and thick cloud cover limited the strike to a paltry 24 bombers What bombs rained down on the capital widely missed their target
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On , LeMay sent 529 B29s in a daylight incendiary raid over Nagoya, destroying the Mitsubishi engine plant and 36 square miles of the city around it Two days later, 457 bombers went back to Nagoya and destroyed another 38 square miles On May 23 and 25, there were two more raids against Tokyo to implement his bombing of Tokyo Tokyo burns during a raid on (National Archives/ Courtesy Cary Karacas, Japan Air Raidsorg) By Tony Reichhardt airspacemagcom "If war with the Japanese does come, we'll fight mercilessly," General George C Still, the firebombing of Tokyo on the night of March 9–10, 1945 is the single deadliest air raid in history, with a greater area of fire damage and loss of life than either of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki
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