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Bombing of Kobe in World War II
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On March 17, 1945, 331 American B-29 bombers launched a firebombing attack against the city of Kobe, Japan. 8,841 of the city's residents were confirmed to have been killed in the resulting firestorms, which destroyed an area of three square miles and included 21% of Kobe's urban area. At the time, the city covered an area of 14 square miles (36 km²). More than 650,000 people had their homes destroyed, and the homes of another million people were damaged.
On June 5 that same year, Kobe was bombed again. Incendiaries dropped from 473 bombers destroyed 4.4 square miles of the city.
See also
- Pacific War
- Pacific Theater of Operations
- Grave of the Fireflies, an anime film regarding the bombing.
Books
- Edoin, Hoito (1987). The Night Tokyo Burned. Garden City, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-01072-9.
- Werrell, Kenneth P (1996). Blankets of Fire. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 1-56098-665-4.
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