Word: marunouchi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fire in the Wind. Less than 48 hours later, nearly 500 more B-29s returned. This time their target was farther north-the heart of modern Tokyo. While the fires from Thursday's raid still blazed, the planes dropped another 4,000 tons of gasoline jelly on the Marunouchi ("inside the castle walls") district. Said returning pilots: "Their searchlights picked us up at the coast, guided us in and took us right out to sea again . . . the toughest mission of my career. . . . Lots of Japanese came up at us right through their own flak. They were shooting down their...
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