Word: hamamatsu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest city and major aircraft production center. Two raids by more than 500 bombers each burned out nearly one-fourth of the city, hit the Mitsubishi Aircraft works (world's largest in area) and some 30 other military targets. At week's end B-29s turned on Hamamatsu, 60 miles southeast of Nagoya, to bomb more factories...
...Anderson crew began looking for some other target, found a fine fat factory in Hamamatsu (55 mi. south of Nagoya) and plunked their bombs squarely among its buildings. Then came the letdown. Back on Saipan, Anderson reported his emergency measure-and got a big laugh. The plant was a musical instrument factory...
...make things worse, other crews reported that on the way home from Nagoya they had seen the factory burning cheerily. The Anderson crew felt pretty low. Then an intelligence officer heard their story. He cheered them up. The Hamamatsu plant had indeed once catered to Japan's bandmen, but no longer. Best information now was that it had been converted to the manufacture of aircraft parts, it had been a prime bomber's target, after...