“But it seemed very pretty to me.” A U.S. B-29 bomber was shot down over what was then Funaho village in present-day Inzai, located east of Tokyo, sometime between the evening of May ...

Glenn Hodak nearly 80 years after his B-29 bomber was shot down over Tokyo in March 1945. Hodak, 23, was from Cambridge Springs, Pa., and a gunner aboard a B-29 Superfortress bomber when it was ...

In all, Major General Curtis LeMay sent 279 B-29 bombers from the United States Army Air Forces low over Tokyo to destroy the historical heart of the capital, Shitamachi, a working-class area by ...

Hodak, of Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, was a gunner aboard a B-29 "Superfortress" aircraft. These planes had multiple machine guns, held over 20,000 ... on a mission to Tokyo.

Shortly after midnight on March 10, 1945, more than 300 American B-29 airplanes began dropping incendiary bombs over Tokyo in a coordinated attack called "Operation Meetinghouse." Their targets ...

rising to over 100 when counting the Tama region in its western suburbs and other areas. The most devastating was the Great Tokyo Air Raid of March 10, 1945, when more than 300 U.S. B-29 bombers ...