1945-03-17

Kobe air raid

Kobe air raidKobe air raid is a air war record around Kobe air raid, 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. Great Tokyo Air Raid
  2. Tokyo firebombing deepens the government crisis
  3. Osaka air raid
  4. Kobe air raidCurrent record
  5. Prelude to raids on Kure Naval Arsenal
  6. Okinawa civilian administration collapses under battle
  7. Operation Ketsugo planning
See all 163

Wartime Position

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

Kobe air raid is a air war record around Kobe air raid, 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 Kobe air raid clarify changes in front lines and governing practice.

Incendiary bombs falling on Kobe and Wikimedia Commons · American bombs falling on Kobe provide both visual evidence and source context for the event.

Media

Incendiary bombs falling on KobeVisual recordIncendiary bombs falling on KobeA 4 June 1945 photograph of incendiary bombs falling over Kobe from B-29 Superfortresses. It anchors the geography and surrounding context of “Kobe air raid.”

Source Trail

SourceWikimedia Commons · American bombs falling on KobeOpen source