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...planes came to the Superfortresses as they droned in on their fixed bomb-run courses over the Mitsubishi engine plant at Nagoya and the Musashino-Nakajima factory in a Tokyo suburb. The big planes met them with a hail of fire, shot down 136. The remaining 37 fell to the Mustangs, which had to chase their prey. Five U.S. bombers and two fighters were lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: First Installments | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...Tokyo, once the world's third largest city, more than 3,000,000 of the 7,000,000 inhabitants (according to official broadcasts) had been evacuated or killed. Three other big cities - Osaka, Kobe, Nagoya -had been similarly scourged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Not Yet Enough | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...technique had caught the Japs by surprise in the first all-incendiary assault on Tokyo, and LeMay wanted to give them no time to recover. It was near-miraculous that two-thirds of the Tokyo raiders were serviced and in shape to lash at Nagoya within 48 hours; as a rule, half the heavy bombers used on a strike are ready to fly again four days later. It was downright miraculous that a high proportion of the Superfortresses used in the first two strikes were ready for use again at Osaka, again at Kobe, and in a repeat raid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Ten-Day Wonder | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...tactics (from high-level, daylight bombing to medium-level, night bombing): it is more economical to burn out a sprawling area of small industry and homecraft war production than to bomb it out with high explosives. The fire-bomb technique is not infallible: less than two square miles of Nagoya burned in the first assault, and the job had to be done again a week later-with better results. Daylight bombing with big demolition bombs is still the prescribed dose for heavy industry, big arsenals, dockyards and the like. In future, the Japs (already evacuating all but essential civilians from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Ten-Day Wonder | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

Only 48 hours later, the second blow of the same size was swung against Nagoya (pop. 1,500,000), 150 miles west of Tokyo. Two-thirds of the crews who had flown against Tokyo were out again. All but one returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Firebirds' Flight | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

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