1944-10-12

Air raids on Taiwan intensify

TaiwanAir raids on Taiwan intensify is a air war record, situated in the endgame phase when U.S. air war and Japanese defensive planning exposed Taiwan’s military-base role. It belongs to the wider reshaping of colonial rule and wartime mobilization in Taiwan.

Other events in this phase

Colonial Taiwan and Wartime Mobilization202
  1. Taiwan waterworks capacity and purification-facilities table
  2. Taiwan-Okinawa logistics link
  3. Formosa Air Battle begins
  4. Air raids on Taiwan intensifyCurrent record
  5. Kaohsiung air raid
  6. Keelung bombing
  7. Taiwan food rationing crisis
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Wartime Position

the endgame when U.S. air war and Japanese defensive planning exposed Taiwan’s military-base role

Air raids on Taiwan intensify is a air war record, situated in the endgame phase when U.S. air war and Japanese defensive planning exposed Taiwan’s military-base role. It belongs to the wider reshaping of colonial rule and wartime mobilization in Taiwan.

Reading The Record

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

Okayama aircraft-plant bombardment, Formosa and Wikimedia Commons · Okayama bombardment, Formosa, 1944 provide both visual evidence and source context for the event.

Media

Okayama aircraft-plant bombardment, FormosaVisual recordOkayama aircraft-plant bombardment, FormosaA 16 October 1944 photo record of the bombardment of the Okayama aircraft plant on Formosa. It anchors the geography and surrounding context of “Air raids on Taiwan intensify.”

Source Trail

SourceWikimedia Commons · Okayama bombardment, Formosa, 1944Open source