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Saotome Katsumoto and the Firebombing of Tokyo: Introducing The Great Tokyo Air Raid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Richard Sams ,
Saotome Katsumoto  and
Richard Sams
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March 10 is the 70th anniversary of the Great Tokyo Air Raid. Although Tokyo was bombed more than 100 times from November 1944 to the end of the war, the firebombing centered on the Shitamachi district in the early hours of March 10, 1945, was by far the most devastating air raid on the capital. In less than three hours from just after midnight, 279 B-29 bombers dropped a total of 1,665 tons of incendiaries. By dawn, more than 100,000 people were dead, one million were homeless, and 16 square miles of Tokyo had been burned to the ground.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 10 , March 2015 , e2
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