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    The bombing of Tokyo (東京大空襲, Tōkyō daikūshū) was a series of air raids on Japan launched by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific War in...
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    to area bombing tactics given that the precision bombing campaign had failed. It is generally acknowledged that the tactics used against Tokyo and in similar...
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    Tokyo (/ˈtoʊkioʊ/; Japanese: 東京, Tōkyō, [toːkʲoː] ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (東京都, Tōkyō-to), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous...
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    Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing (Japanese: 三菱重工爆破事件) was a terrorist bombing of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Tokyo, Japan on 30 August...
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    Firebombing (redirect from Fire-bombing)
    in World War II Bombing of Frampol in World War II Bombing of Wieluń in World War II Bombing of Warsaw in World War II Aerial bombing of cities Roerich...
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    The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during...
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    related to the bombing of Tokyo during World War II. The museum opened in 2002 and was renovated in 2005, the 60th anniversary of the bombings. In 2012, the...
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    part of an attempted cover up. Hiroshima before the bombing Hiroshima after the bombing and subsequent firestorm The Tokyo control operator of the Japan...
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  • Shimada Gisuke, a swordsmith, to make. It was lost in the Bombing of Tokyo in 1945. The type of blade shape was omi yari. Tenka-Goken (Five Swords under...
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    revitalizing the bombing campaign. His boss, General "Hap" Arnold, urged him to stop precision bombing and adopt incendiary bombings. On February 19,...
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    bombing and "indiscriminate". An US intelligence report found half of the bombs dropped on Gaza had been unguided bombs. Experts stated the bombing campaign...
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  • Tokyo attacks may refer to the following: Kantō Massacre (1923) Bombing of Tokyo (1942, 1944–1945) Doolittle Raid (1942) Bombing of Tokyo (10 March 1945)...
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    type of bombing was permissible under international law. While direct attacks against civilians were ruled out as "terror bombing", the concept of attacking...
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  • campaigns/runs (such as the attack on Pearl Harbor and the bombing of Tokyo) or massacres such as the Rape of Nanjing, which, despite potentially massive casualties...
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    are the bombing of Dresden and the bombing of Tokyo on 10 March 1945. Many different configurations of incendiary bombs and a wide range of filling materials...
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    strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military...
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    International Airport bombing was the attempted terrorist bombing of Air India Flight 301, which took place on June 23, 1985. A bomb hidden in a suitcase...
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    Tobu Museum Tokyo Irei-do (Tokyo Memorial Hall): a memorial to unidentified people who died in the Great Kantō earthquake, the Bombing of Tokyo in World...
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    bombardment or area bombing is a type of aerial bombardment in which bombs are dropped over the general area of a target. The term "area bombing" came into prominence...
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    mainland Japan. Bombers from Tinian took part in the bombing of Tokyo in March 1945 and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. After World...
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    Nihonbashi (redirect from Nihonbashi, Tokyo)
    an incendiary bomb. It is one of the few traces left from the fire bombing that leveled most of Tokyo. Nihonbashi was a ward of Tokyo City. In 1947,...
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    Osamu Dazai (category University of Tokyo alumni)
    following year. In 1930, Dazai enrolled in the French Literature Department of Tokyo Imperial University and promptly stopped studying again. In October, he...
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    destroyed in the atomic bombing of the city. The ruins of the Exhibition Hall is now the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, also known as the A-Bomb Dome, a UNESCO World...
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    The bombing of Kobe in World War II on March 16 and 17, 1945, was part of the strategic bombing campaign waged by the United States against military and...
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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...
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    port. The city also had large depots of military supplies, and was a key center for shipping. The bombing of Tokyo and other cities in Japan during World...
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    Japanese civilian houses. Those bombs were widely used against civilians, including the Bombing of Tokyo. Over 40,000 tons of AN-M69s were dropped on Japanese...
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    Night bomber (redirect from Night bombing)
    specifically for carrying out bombing missions at night. The term is now mostly of historical significance. Night bombing began in World War I and was...
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    Command head Arthur Harris's concept of a Strategic Bombing Offensive. Bomber Command's poor performance in bombing accuracy during 1941 had led to calls...
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    conference given in Tokyo in 1975, he was asked what he thought of the bombing of Hiroshima, and answered: "It's very regrettable that nuclear bombs were dropped...
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