1944-11-24

First major B-29 raid on Tokyo

JapanFirst major B-29 raid on Tokyo is a air war record, situated in the defeat-endgame phase linking homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics. It belongs to the wider reshaping of military politics and home-front mobilization in Japan.

Other events in this phase

Japanese Imperial Home Front163
  1. Women’s volunteer labor ordinance
  2. Okinawa civilian mobilization intensifies
  3. First large-scale special attack deployment
  4. First major B-29 raid on TokyoCurrent record
  5. B-29 raids on Tokyo begin
  6. Compulsory urban evacuation
  7. Tokyo firebreak demolition
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Wartime Position

the defeat-endgame when homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics converged

First major B-29 raid on Tokyo is a air war record, situated in the defeat-endgame phase linking homeland air raids, food crisis, final mobilization, and surrender politics. It belongs to the wider reshaping of military politics and home-front mobilization in Japan.

Reading The Record

Placed against nearby events, the location, date, and actors around Japan clarify changes in front lines and governing practice.

Strategic bombing of Tokyo, 1944-1945 and Wikimedia Commons · U.S. Strategic Bombing of Tokyo, 1944-1945 provide both visual evidence and source context for the event.

Media

Strategic bombing of Tokyo, 1944-1945Visual recordStrategic bombing of Tokyo, 1944-1945A map of B-29 attacks on Tokyo from late 1944 into 1945, anchoring the first major raids after the Marianas became operational bases. It anchors the geography and surrounding context of “First major B-29 raid on Tokyo.”

Source Trail

SourceWikimedia Commons · U.S. Strategic Bombing of Tokyo, 1944-1945Open source