A woman fell in the street after being hit by an incendiary bomb on 29 May 1945 as a result of the Yokohama Air Raid. A faintly alive woman called for help, but the woman, in a critical condition on her deathbed, was left untouched.

    A woman was found lying in the street after being hit by incendiary bombs on 29 May 1945 as a result of the Yokohama Air Raid. A faintly alive woman called for help, but the woman, in a critical condition on her deathbed, was left untouched. Numerous more charred bodies, large charred adult corpses and the bodies of small children were scattered across the urban area of Yokohama. Many of the bodies were placed on tin plates for transport and covered with cloth and soil. Many of the dead civilians were almost burnt to death. While fleeing, they died of asphyxiation due to carbon monoxide poisoning. 

　On 29 May, the Yokohama air raid was carried out from a base in the Mariana Islands, moving northwards and reaching the airspace over Yokohama at 9.22 am. In order to drop incendiary bombs on the central city of Yokohama, the bombing target, they chose to bomb the city in the morning and afternoon. The B-29 bombers concentrated their M69 incendiary bombs on five bombing zones, burning down densely-packed wooden houses and setting the city of Yokohama ablaze. The bombers repeatedly dropped 350,000 2,570 tonnes of incendiary bombs, causing a massive firestorm in Yokohama in just 68 minutes until

　On 25 May 1945, the US military conducted its last and largest air raid on Tokyo, destroying more than half of the city's urban area. With the raid on Tokyo complete, the next target for air raids was Yokohama, which had not suffered any air raid damage. In addition, more than 100 P-5 fighters escorting B-29s opened fire on the fleeing citizens of Yokohama who were being indiscriminately bombed. Unresisting civilian Yokohama civilians were also killed in the air raids by fighter fire, with nowhere to run. According to Yokohama police records, more than 3,650 people were killed, 10,198 were injured and some 310,000 were affected. On 28 May, the day before the Yokohama air raid, the US military held its third meeting of the Committee for Selecting Target Sites for the Atomic Bomb, where it was decided that Yokohama should be excluded from the list of candidate sites for the atomic bombing. The US military banned large-scale air raids after 29 May in order to showcase the threat of the atomic bomb.