2nd June 1945
About 400 B-29’s carried out another concentrated daylight raid yesterday, this time on Osaka, and the Times feels compelled this morning to write: “The enemy’s… Read More »2nd June 1945
About 400 B-29’s carried out another concentrated daylight raid yesterday, this time on Osaka, and the Times feels compelled this morning to write: “The enemy’s… Read More »2nd June 1945
The authorities are going [illegible] about the effect of the propaganda pamphlets dropped on Tokyo and Yokahama. “The contents of the leaflets,” cries the Asahi… Read More »1st June 1945
The trains were running to Tokyo again and I had an opportunity to see for myself what remained of Yokohama. Once more I was reminded… Read More »31st May 1945
Yokohama was hit by 500 B-29’s accompanied by some 100 P-51’s, according to the official communique. They worked on the city for barely an hour… Read More »30th May 1945
A German fleeing from Yokohama by car arrived in Miyanoshita gibbering with hysteria. From what we could make out Yokohama had been wiped out in… Read More »29th May 1945
Almost unnoticed amid the mourning for Tokyo was the first faint death-rattle of Okinawa. On the night of the 24th the Giretsu air-borne unit of… Read More »28th May 1945
The imperial palace was burnt down in the last raid. A communique issued by imperial general headquarters yesterday revealed that about 250 B-29’s from southern… Read More »27th May 1945
Tokyo will always remember the night of the 25th May. It started out so quietly. The moon was still out. People told one another that… Read More »25th-26th May 1945
From the night of the 23rd to the morning of the 24th Tokyo underwent one of the heaviest raids of the war. The targets were… Read More »23rd-24th May 1945