Carpet Bombing Of Tokyo

Of central tokyo 16 square miles were destroyed leaving an estimated 100 000 civilians dead and over one million homeless.

Carpet bombing of tokyo. The us first mounted a seaborne small scale air raid on tokyo in april 1942. Bombs falling from planes through heavy clouds on tokyo. Aerial shot of b. Flak bursting below planes.

Air force began dropping incendiary bombs on the city of tokyo. Firebombing of tokyo on the night of march 9 1945 u s. The firebombing of tokyo was designed to terrorise and bomb the japanese into surrender. On march 9 1945 b 29 bombers in the u s.

While some people have said that a war can be won with air power making armies and navies obsolete this has been proven incorrect too many times in the last fifty years. The japanese later called this event night of the black snow. On the night of 9 10 march 1945 operation meetinghouse was conducted and is regarded as the single most destructive bombing raid in human history. Second this was war.

Bombing of tokyo march 9 10 1945 firebombing raid codenamed operation meetinghouse by the united states on the capital of japan during the final stages of world war ii often cited as one of the most destructive acts of war in history more destructive than the bombing of dresden hiroshima or nagasaki. Like the bombing of dresden the bombing of tokyo on 10 march 1945 is used as an example by historians and commentators who criticize the ethics and practices of the allied strategic bombing campaigns. Aerial view of flying fortresses in formation. This raid known as operation meetinghouse caus.

16 square miles 41 km2 of central tokyo were annihilated over 1 million were made homeless with an estimated 100 000 civilian deaths. First off it wasn t carpet bombing it was fire bombing the dropping of many 50 100 lb incendiaries versus the later b 52 dropping of 250 500 lb high explosives. The great tokyo air raid in the low lying shitamachi district was the first time the us air force moved from targeting the main industrial districts that were the basis of japan s military capability to low altitude indiscriminate incendiary bombing that targeted civilians. The bombing of tokyo was a series of firebombing air raids by the united states army air forces during the pacific campaigns of world war ii.

It was also seen as payback for the pearl harbour attacks and the mistreatment of allied prisoners of war.