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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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On May 15, 1945, from Guam, reports detail the devastating B-29 Superfortress raid on Nagoya, Japan, using over 1 million incendiary bombs, leaving the city in ruins with massive smoke columns. Related actions include Japanese plane losses and minor US naval damage off Okinawa.
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Third Largest City of Japan in Ruins-Smoke Rises More than 3 Miles
GUAM, May 15-Newly scarred stretches of Japan's third largest city, burned and blackened by more than a million jellied gasoline fire bombs, testified today to the power of yesterday's unprecedented raid on Nagoya by 500 Superforts.
Huge columns of black smoke with dense clouds prevented accurate observation of the full extent of damage from the greatest of the multiple blows rained on Japan by Army, Navy and Marine airmen.
Perfect Bombing
Returning pilots described it as "perfect bombing." Two B-29's were shot down over the target, and a third lost near Iwo Jima, but its crew parachuted and was picked up.
There is no American confirmation of Tokyo reports of raids on southern Japanese airdromes by 500 carrier planes Sunday and 500 Monday. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz did announce one major U. S. warship in a fast carrier task force was damaged by Japanese aerial attacks.
Japanese propaganda dispatches claimed persistent attacks were pressed against two fast U. S. carrier forces which shot the planes over Kyushu, Shikoku and southern Honshu Islands.
Jap Planes Shot Down
A total of 46 attacking Nipponese planes were shot down Sunday night and Monday morning as they attacked the carrier force and fleet units off Okinawa, where two light U. S. Fleet units were damaged.
Eleven more enemy aircraft were brought down by Marine Corsairs sweeping across the China Sea.
B-29 spokesmen anticipated heavy casualties from the Nagoya raid, directed at a densely populated nine-square-mile area in the northern section of the city.
As the great parade of Superforts loosed 3,500 tons of incendiaries on the area, airmen said "the entire city was covered by smoke" with some columns rising more than three miles.
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Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Nagoya, Japan
Event Date
May 14, 1945 (Raid Reported May 15 From Guam)
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two b-29s shot down over nagoya, one lost near iwo jima (crew rescued); 46 japanese planes shot down off okinawa; 11 more by marine corsairs; heavy casualties anticipated in nagoya; minor us fleet damage.
Event Details
500 Superforts conducted an unprecedented incendiary raid on Nagoya using over a million jellied gasoline bombs and 3,500 tons of incendiaries, blackening the city's northern nine-square-mile area; pilots reported perfect bombing with massive smoke columns over three miles high; unconfirmed reports of US carrier raids on southern Japanese airdromes; Japanese attacks on US carriers resulted in plane losses and minor US warship damage.