U.S. air raids continued against Japan until the day of its surrender in the Pacific War because Tokyo was reluctant to accept the Potsdam Declaration over the ... including 825 B-29 bombers ...

On Nov. 24 that year, 111 B-29 heavy bombers attacked Tokyo, and air raids across Japan then moved into full swing. By the time of Japan's defeat in the war, some 500,000 people are believed to ...

The Center of the Tokyo Raid and ... struggles over territory across the Pacific and the devastating U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, B-29s carried a non-lethal payload over Japan: leaflets urging ...

Forensics investigators identified the remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Cpl. Glenn Hodak nearly 80 years after his B-29 bomber ...