Word: nagoya
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...fear of air raids, knowing that U.S. planes will strike some day and that they are unprepared. Japanese correspondents in Berlin grimly report the German agony, to prepare their readers for the worst. (Last week German correspondents reported that 15 districts of Tokyo and eight districts in Nagoya, 2.7 sq. mi., would be evacuated in anticipation of future raids...
...success of the raid exceeded our most optimistic expectations." South of Tokyo he left in flames a cruiser or battleship under construction at the Navy yard. At Nagoya he showered incendiary bombs on the Mitsubishi airplane factory and an oil-tank farm. "It appeared to us that practically every bomb reached the target for which it was intended. . . . About 25 or 30 miles to sea the rear gunners reported seeing columns of smoke rising thousands of feet...
...machine guns. They saw it in the smoke rising from fires on the edge of Tokyo, third largest city of the world (pop. 6,581,000). They saw it in bomb wreckage in Tokyo's famed port of Yokohama, in their great airplane-manufacturing center at Nagoya (pop. 1,249,000), in Kobe (pop. 1,006,000), the Glasgow of Japan. They saw it in the flames from incendiaries that licked through the jerry-built, paper-structure houses where Japan's little men live...
...soldiers, waving flags and banners and singing war songs, followed each other so closely that they extended in a line as far as the eye could see. . . . Children in the street waved flags and joined in the war songs." Factories blazed by night, while the forges of Osaka and Nagoya hammered out the iron instruments of destiny. From the islands, the heavy-laden bombers swept away to blast Nanking...
...washed away by floods. At Nagano, 20 persons were blown to bits by a fireworks explosion. Many mountain villages were wiped out by forest-fires between Kobe and Shimonoseki on the Empire's main island. A cyclone howled through the town of Fukui, unroofed houses, wrecked communications. At Nagoya, a despondent Japanese supplemented the work of the elements by throwing himself under a freight train. He was killed, the locomotive and 16 cars were wrecked, traffic from Tokyo to Shimonoseki stood still...