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Word: koriyama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days earlier, day raiders escorted by fighters from Iwo Jima had hammered Tokyo's Musashino-Nakajima factory for the eighth time, and others had blasted an aircraft factory in Koriyama, 110 miles north of Tokyo-the most northerly target so far attacked. From reconnaissance photographs, the results of last fortnight's raid on Nagoya were read: the Mitsubishi plant almost completely destroyed, 90% of the roofing gone over the whole target area. This week Tokyo was hit again-the third time in five days-by B-29s in "very great strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: New Weapon, Old Results | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

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