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	The Firebombing of Kobe and Osaka during World War II
		The Firebombing of Kobe and Osaka during World War II The Firebombing of Kobe and Osaka during World War II 1995 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the end of World War II.
		The decision to drop the atomic bombs, and their horrifying effects, can only be understood in the context of the American strategy for fighting World War II.
		Osaka was to be firebombed again with 458 aircraft on June 2; Kobe with 473 aircraft on June 6; and Osaka again with 409 planes on June 8.
	www.folds.net /Haney/firebombing.html (515 words)

	Bombing of Tokyo in World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The key development for the bombing of Japan was the B-29, which had an operational range of 1500 miles (2,400 km); almost 90% of the bombs dropped on the home islands of Japan were delivered by this type of bomber (147,000 tons).
		Unlike the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were at least partially intended to force Japan to capitulate immediately, fire-bombing, which killed more civilians in total, was carried out as a long-term strategy to destroy Japan's ability to produce war materials as well as undermine the Japanese Government's will to continue the war.
		In the context of total war, the large number of Japanese civilians killed by strategic bombing was seen as acceptable by the American administration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_in_World_War_II (1112 words)

	The Strategic Bombing of Japan October 1944 - August 1945 - World War II Multimedia Database
		The around the clock bombing raids had amounted to a second front, with thousands of men and machines held in Germany and away from battlefronts in Russia, Africa, Italy and France.
		On August 15, the last battle of the Pacific War was between a flight of B-32 Dominators, another kind of heavy bomber, and Japanese naval fighters.
		LeMay, therefore, decided that blanket bombing raids on cities to undermine the morale of civilians were an appropriate response.
	worldwar2database.com /html/japanbom.htm (672 words)

	Air Force Combat Units of World War II - Part 7
		Bombed enemy positions in support of the breakthrough at St Lo in Jul and the offensive against Brest in Aug and Sep. Later in Sep, assisted the airborne attack on Holland.
		Bombed and strafed such targets as airfields, hangars railroads, bridges, highways, barges, fuel dumps, ammunition depots, gun emplacements, and troop concentrations until the end of the war; also escorted bombers that struck marshalling yards, factories, cities, and other objectives.
		While on a mission to bomb an oil refinery at Misburg on 26 Nov 1944, the group was attacked by large numbers of enemy fighters; although about one-half of its planes were destroyed, the remainder fought off the interceptors, successfully bombed the target, and won for the group a DUC.
	libraryautomation.com /nymas/usaaf7.html (14642 words)

	Howard Zinn
		That is, the climate of World War II.
		In World War II, the assumption of a common motive for government and citizen was easier to accept because of the obvious barbarity of Fascism.
		Shortly after World War II, in the early 1950s, massive American aid to the French fighting to hold on to their pre-war colony of Indochina was accompanied by righteous declarations of the need to fight Communism.
	polymer.bu.edu /~amaral/Personal/zinn.html (3780 words)

	Pictures Index of World War II
		Loaded with urgent war supplies and materials, this plane is one of a fleet flying shipments from the U.S. across the Atlantic and the continent of Africa to strategic battle zones, 1943.
		Japanese war art painting by Kita Renzo, 1942.Rear Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi, commander of the Japanese Carrier Striking Force's Carrier Division Two, elected to remain aboard his flagship Hiryu when she was abandoned during the early morning of 5 June 1942.
		Bombs burst near the Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku as she was attacked by USS Yorktown (CV-5) planes in the morning of 8 May 1942.
	www.picturesfree.org /cdcaptions/wwii.htm (20200 words)

	World War II Aviation: Catalogue by Back Creek Books
		Boeman was a World War II bomber pilot with the 307th Bombardment Group, flying missions against Japan from the Pacific atoll of Morotai.
		This was the introduction of a new kind of naval war, wherein the battles were fought in the skies overhead rather than on the surface of the sea.
		World War II instructional pamphlet on the Curtiss Electric Propeller, including description of the construction and function, data on operating procedures, recommendations, and tips.
	www.backcreekbooks.com /catalogs/ww2aviation.php (2644 words)

	GOPUSA - World War II Remembered
		After the cruisers and carriers were refueled on 17 April, they detached from the rest of the force in order to make a high speed run to the launching point.
		The plan was for a nighttime raid, with Colonel Doolittle launching first, with a cargo of incendiary bombs.
		Inevitably, some of the bombs went awry and hit civilian targets instead of the intended military targets.
	www.gopusa.com /ww2/2002/ww2_0422p.shtml (1490 words)

	Book: The saddest book in the world
		Nor was the firebombing of Dresden, the terrifying hide and seek of the Battle Of The Bulge, or the rape of Nanking.
		No, the Faustian bargain America used to seal the end of the war was one of its most terrible acts, and is one that Americans have persistently held a blind spot towards, building elaborate justifications and rationalizations to paper over something horrifying and immoral.
		In one of those bitterly cruel ironies that are so close to the horrors of World War II, the survivors of the bombing were left with a taint that they couldn't shake off.
	www.pushby.com /forrest/arc/007675.html (1181 words)

	Noncombatant Deaths in World War II
		Noncombatant Deaths in World War II Noncombatant Deaths in WW II The purpose of this page is to gather in one place the most accurate statistics available of noncombatants killed in the Second World War.
		7 million civilians died in the war according to Gilbert.
		That was the official minimum death toll; later, 130,000 deaths were 'confirmed' by the Japanese authorities."
	www.holocaust-history.org /~rjg/deaths.shtml (404 words)

	International Cell Phones, Japan Cell Phone Rentals - World Cellular Rentals
		World War I permitted Japan, which fought on the side of the victorious Allies, to expand its influence in Asia, and its territorial holdings in the Pacific.
		Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal was convened on May 3, 1946 to prosecute Japanese war crimes.
		The war cost millions of lives in Japan and other countries, especially in East Asia, and left much of the country's industries and infrastructure destroyed.
	www.worldcr.com /japan_culture_1.htm (1423 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: documents/spoofs/myth-of-20th-century
		WORLD WAR II: THE MYTH OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Alan Lustiger We have all heard the stories about World War II.
		How the US exploded an "atomic bomb." One might think that World War II is as factual as possible.
		THESE WERE THE ONLY CASUALTIES OF "WORLD WAR II." The media showed the injured and dead soldiers in photographs many, many times to give the impression of a "war" with continuous casualties.
	www.nizkor.org /ftp.cgi/documents/spoofs/myth-of-20th-century (679 words)

	World War II
		World War II : Population Losses by Country
		World War II in Ukraine: June 22, 1941
		Bombing In World War II: The Evolution of Warfare
	members.aol.com /TeacherNet/WWII.html (2533 words)

	WORLD WAR II 1945
		The Japanese destroyer Nokaze is sunk by the submarine USS Pargo (SS-264) in the South China Sea.
		The destroyer USS Bennet (DD-473) is damaged by aircraft bomb; the destroyer USS Terry (DD-513) is damaged by coastal defense guns; and the submarine chaser PCS-1461, attack cargo ship USS Whitley (AKA-91) and LST 641 and LST 787 are damaged by collision, all in the Iwo Jima area.
		Army troops are landed on the southeast coast of Panay in the Philippines by a naval task group, under Rear Admiral Struble, under the cover of cruiser and destroyer gunfire.
	www.blountweb.com /blountcountymilitary/wars/ww2/timelines/1945_ww2.htm (11002 words)

	World War II Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This server is a collection of information pertaining to the events that transpired in the years of 1933 to 1945, encompasing all of World War II.
		WW2 War at Sea historical interest Has new pages, some of historical intrest to those intrested in the war at sea during WW2.
		World War II Convoys: The Runs to Russia By CE1 Robert A. Germinsky
	www-personal.umich.edu /~amnornes/WarLinks.html (1039 words)

	Senator Harley M. Kilgore and Japan's World War II Business Practices
		In early 1943, the committee was charged with the responsibility of examining a Kilgore bill to establish an Office of War Mobilization.
		In 1928, Osaka financial interests incorporated Japan Gasoline Company as the mechanism to acquire Universal technology for the Dobbs process, which involved a means of cracking petroleum utilizing heat and pressure.21 On July 19, 1928, Universal and Hisashi Sekiguchi signed a contract which gave Japan Gasoline access to the technology and its future advances.
		Believing that Universal was the best oil research institute in the world, he was willing to help Japan Gasoline become the vehicle to disseminate Universal's technology to Japan.31 Rokura Shinohara, a member of the Japanese Parliament, showed a great deal of interest in the processes.
	www.wvculture.org /history/journal_wvh/wvh55-6.html (4395 words)

	POWs in Japan, World War II, POW Camps
		These were the men sacrificed at the beginning of World War II and thier service should never be forgotten.
		The Sounds of War includes the audios of famous wartime news broadcasts including Tokyo Rose, Churchill, CBS News, and Tojo announcing the start of war.
		Osaka - Itchioka Stadium and Yokohama Stadium Hospitals.
	www.mansell.com /pow-index.html (1070 words)

	A timeline of World War II
		A timeline of World War II A time-line of World War II
		Throughout the war, Stalin continued the purges he had begun in the 1930s, killing dissidents at the rate of one million per year (Robert Conquest's estimate, largely confirmed by the secret archives opened after the fall of the Soviet Union).
		Prisoners of war in German camps were not mistreated (only 1% died) but prisoners of war in Japanese camps were used as slave labourers (and 31% died).
	www.scaruffi.com /politics/wwii.html (2315 words)

	UNF Core II: Section 13: World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		World War II is just about the most discussed historical event in modern America -- look at the History Channel schedule for confirmation.
		Hiroshima had not been bombed before: one aim of bombing it was to see the effects of a bomb on a virgin area.
		The Bomb - another major war would end civilisation - this knowledge is always there in the background in a way never known to other ages.
	www.unf.edu /classes/freshmancore/halsall/core2-13.htm (6035 words)

	Army Air Forces in World War II
		B-24s bomb airstrips at Tanamon and Sidate on Celebes Island and bomb the seaplane base on Kangean Island in the Java Sea.
		Mission 326: 145 B-29s bomb the Osaka Army Arsenal and 2 hit alternate targets; 160+ P-51 escort the B-29s and attack airfields in the Nagoya area; 1 P-51 is lost.
		On 30 Aug, Atsugi was the busiest airport in the world.
	www.usaaf.net /chron/45/aug45.htm (5932 words)

	MS 2012: World War II Collection
		Abstract: The Special Collections Library's World War II collections were gathered by the University of Tennessee's Center for the Study of War and Society.
		Memoirs of crash landing in Germany and being a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft 3, at Sagan, Germany.
		Osaka"; Attack of 14 March 1945; Capt. Lea's room at the Hattori; Guarded entry to Hattori; An official dinner; Russian Guards for PU-YI.
	www.lib.utk.edu /spcoll/manuscripts/ms2012fa.html (6906 words)

	The Personal Navigator World War II Books and Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Collection of a World War II U.S. Army Air Corps officer: 8 photos, Air Base appointment to base duties, special orders, list of leave grantees, and records folder.
		In this article he argues Hitler's case for gaining the colonies that were taken away from Germany in the WWI Peace Settlement, and also, eventually the colonies of the French Empire.
		Schacht was tried in the Nuremberg War Crimes trials, but acquitted, then later tried by the German Government and sentenced to prison, but released in 1948.
	users.primushost.com /~persnav/wwii3.htm (1277 words)

	World War 2 Veteran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A World War II veteran lost everything he owned in a scam that focused on a piece of history, according to a KPRC Local 2 Troubleshooters report.
		A New Zealand war hero has been accused of war crimes by murdering German soldiers in World War II while disguised as a Nazi paratrooper, according to a new book.
		The recent uproar in Latvia over a proposed march by Latvian veterans of the Nazi SS highlighted the ambivalent relationship the Baltic nation has with its World War II behavior.
	world-war-2.brothersofnam.org (2063 words)

	Museums In Motion - 1927 Osaka, Japan tram No. 151
		Japan’s extensive ties with San Francisco made it a natural fit for representation in the popular San Francisco Historic Trolley Festivals of the 1980s, and indeed, a streetcar that had run in Kobe and Hiroshima—No. 578-J—was brought to San Francisco early on and proved to be popular.
		As it turns out, a private streetcar company in Osaka, the Hankai Electric Rail Service Company, was about to retire the last of a group of streetcars built by Kawasaki in 1927.
		The car had been renovated several times (for example, it originally had two trolley poles on each end, operating under double overhead wire like a trolley bus), and most documentation of the car’s early history was lost in the bombing of Osaka during World War II.
	www.streetcar.org /mim/streetcars/fleet/antique/151/index.html (420 words)

	Documents Related to World War II
		World War II in Ukraine, The Ukrainian Experience in World War II With a Brief Survey of Ukraine's Population Loss of 10 Million, by Andrew Gregorovich
		The Director of the War Plans Division of the Navy Department (Turner) to the Chief of Naval Operations (Stark), July 19, 1941 [The Possible Effects of an Embargo].
		Winston Churchill, The Second World War, Volume III, The Grand Alliance (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950), Chapter 26, "Persia and the Middle East: Summer and Autumn 1941," pp.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/ww2.htm (12687 words)

	Japan in World War II: Without Mercy
		War Without Mercy: More on WWII and Japan
		bombs released from 30,000 feet in broad daylight
		war had developed in ways not necessarily to Japan's advantage
	core.ecu.edu /hist/tuckerjo/dower.htm (219 words)

	World War II Timeline 1945 - chronology of events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		World War II Timeline 1945 - chronology of events
		The atomic bomb is sucessfully tested in the New Mexico desert
		First atomic bomb, Little boy is dropped on Hiroshima
	www.ww2guide.com /1945.shtml (614 words)

	World War II in the Pacific History Resources
		World War II in the Pacific History Resources
		This Histor eSearch resource page is intended to ease the search for quality history sites.
		If you find a dead link, wish to submit an appropriate website or desire to offer a friendly suggestion please email us.
	www.snowcrest.net /jmike/ww2pacificmil.html (97 words)

	The Firebombing of Osaka -- The Short Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Firebombing of Osaka -- The Short Version
		The Firebombing of Kobe and Osaka during World War II Background to the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
		(Military records reveal that 301 B-29s hit Osaka.)
	www.folds.net /Haney/firebombing_short.html (331 words)

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