During the Pacific War, on June 5, 1945, 350 B-29 bombers of the U.S. military carried out an air raid on the area between Nishinomiya and Tarumi in Kobe City. Photographs taken by the Hyogo Prefectural Police Headquarters showed numerous bodies scattered across the cobblestones of the Yamate-dori Streetcar Line in Kobe City. The eastern half of Kobe City was reduced to a wasteland by the air raid.The casualties and damage from the Kobe Great Air Raid were immense. Over three major air raids on March 17, May 11, and June 5, 1945, tens of thousands of incendiary bombs were dropped, reducing the main urban areas of Kobe City to ashes.
The air raid on June 5, 1945, carried out by the U.S. Army Air Forces' B-29 units targeting Kobe's urban areas and military objectives, is referred to as the Kobe Great Air Raid.Kobe was targeted on June 5 and suffered severe damage. The Kobe Great Air Raid resulted in 7,524 deaths, 16,948 injuries, 142,586 destroyed homes, and 531,694 affected individuals within the city limits of Kobe.
From November 1, 1944, B-29 bombers began flying from the Mariana Islands (Saipan, Guam, and Tinian) to the skies over the Japanese mainland, marking the intensification of strategic bombing raids on the mainland.From mid-March to August 15, 1945, the U.S. military carried out night and daytime incendiary bomb attacks on urban industrial areas using B-29 bombers. During the incendiary bomb attacks on densely populated urban areas (from mid-March to August 15, 1945), the dropping of incendiary bombs on high-density residential areas resulted in the complete destruction of homes and the indiscriminate killing and wounding of civilian residents in urban areas.Massive incendiary bombings were carried out on Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe. Starting in June, the targets were expanded to include smaller cities. Including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a total of 113 municipalities across the country suffered casualties and damage from U.S. air raids.
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