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Bombing of Tokyo
Aerial view of Asakusa, heavily damaged by the World War II U.S. firebombing raids of Tokyo in March 1945.
Anniversary of the Tokyo Firebombing
Anniversary of the Allied firebombing of Tokyo, Japan, on March 9β10, 1945.
On the night of March 9β10, 1945, Allied bombers carried out an incendiary attack on Tokyo, Japan, setting off a firestorm. About one-fourth of the city was destroyed, and some 100,000 people died. The attack came just weeks after a similar air raid on Dresden, Germany.