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On the night of 9/10 March 1945, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) conducted a devastating firebombing raid on Tokyo, the Japanese capital city.This attack was code-named Operation Meetinghouse by the USAAF and is known as the Tokyo Great Air Raid (東京大空襲, Tōkyō dai-kūshū) in Japan. [1]
After the war, Tokyo struggled to rebuild. In 1945 and 1946, the city received a share of the national reconstruction budget roughly proportional to its amount of bombing damage (26.6%), but in successive years Tokyo saw its share dwindle. By 1949, Tokyo was given only 10.9% of the budget; at the same time there was runaway inflation devaluing ...
The partially incinerated remains of Japanese civilians in Tokyo, 10 March 1945 Bodies of people killed in Operation Meetinghouse laid out in Ueno Park, Tokyo, 16 March 1945 The first firebombing attack in this campaign—codenamed Operation Meetinghouse —was carried out against Tokyo on the night of 9/10 March, and proved to be the single ...
10 March 10, 1945 (Saturday ... firebombing of Tokyo that destroyed almost 16 square miles ... could be shipped to war-ravaged countries to keep people from starving. ...
First Yank into Tokyo is a 1945 American war film directed by Gordon Douglas for RKO Radio Pictures, starring Tom Neal, Keye Luke, Barbara Hale, and Richard Loo.It was one of the last American films to be produced during World War II, released only a little over a month after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the official surrender of Japan.
About 8.5 million Japanese civilians were displaced from their homes between 1943 and 1945 as a result of air raids on Japan by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during the Pacific War. These evacuations started in December 1943 as a voluntary government program to prepare the country's main cities for bombing raids by evacuating ...
The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage (東京大空襲・戦災資料センター, Tōkyō Daikūshū Sensai Shiryō Sentā) is a museum in Tokyo, Japan that presents information and artifacts related to the bombing of Tokyo during World War II. The museum opened in 2002 and was renovated in 2005, the 60th anniversary of the bombings. [1]
Drama. End of war for German soldiers; second of three parts 1955 West Germany 08/15 at Home: 08/15 – In der Heimat: Paul May: Drama. End of war for German soldiers; third of three parts 1955 United Kingdom The End of the Affair: Edward Dmytryk: Romance drama. British homefront and illicit romance 1955 East Germany Ernst Thälmann – Leader ...