Bombing of Tokyo (10 March 1945)

When

10 Mar 1945

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

35.70° N, 139.80° E

Description

1945 Firebombing raid on Tokyo (WWII)

Firebombing raid on Tokyo in the Pacific War

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 in Japan. Bombs, dropped from 279 Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers, burned out much of eastern Tokyo.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: Bombing of Tokyo: USAAF B-29 bombers attack Tokyo, Japan with incendiary bombs, killing 100,000 citizens in the firebombing”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Бомбардировка Токио американской авиацией (в налёте участвовало 334 бомбардировщика B-29, сгорели 267 000 домов, погибло более 100 000 жителей)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “アメリカ軍のB-29爆撃機による日本本土に対する空爆が激化。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page