Was the continental United States bombed during World War II?

Updated on military 2024-02-29
46 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    To be precise, there were, but there were no real losses.

    In World War II, Japan built an "aviation submarine" that housed a small collapsible seaplane in a sealed container outside the hull for reconnaissance and bombing. The boat sailed to the west coast of the United States at night and launched seaplanes to bomb the continental United States. But no damage was caused.

    The US fighters took off in pursuit, but the Japanese planes had already been recovered by the submarine and dived, and they had long since disappeared without a trace. The U.S. military was puzzled by this at the time, and it was not until after the war that they learned the reason.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    The United States has a strong military and has never been bombed on its homeland, nor was it a battlefield in World War II.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    If it was just bombing, I suffered it. During World War II, Japan bombed the United States with hydrogen balloons and bombs. But losses. Can be ignored. Because, apart from being scary, there is nothing to lose.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    Because of its strategic location away from the European and Asian theaters, the homeland was never bombed in war.

    Only in the 2001 911 terrorist attacks did the United States suffer an unprecedented blow.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    Only Japanese incendiary balloons have ever flown to the United States, and the damage caused is considerably smaller.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    Both Germany and Japan tried to implement it, but all the technologies, conditions, and material resources could not be met.

  7. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    Yes, but both Japan and Germany have tried.

  8. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    Mercer God fights the country in World War II.

    The purpose of bombing Japan was to search and grind against the living forces of the Japanese fascists;

    The last two atomic bombs.

    It directly broke Japan's confidence and led to Japan's unconditional surrender.

    There were no unjust souls under the atomic bomb, and only those who were killed by the Japanese army were truly innocent!

  9. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    Because Japan didn't surrender at that time. In order to destroy Japan's industrial base and confidence in the war, large-scale bombing was imperative. In terms of bombing and demolishing Japan, Curtis Lemay was a hero, and the only regret was that Japan surrendered.

    Cola's thing is that later Japan will give him the most repentant first-class Rising Sun Dabi Imperial Seal of Honor, but no one wants it.

  10. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    During World War II, driven by crazy ambitions, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and pulled the United States into World War II.

  11. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    The United States bombed Japan because in World War II the Japanese were anti-fascist and provoked wars to invade the world and disturb the regions of other countries, and it was also right that the United States had harmed the interests of the United States by slowing down the war, so it was necessary to bomb Japan to force the Japanese fascists to surrender.

  12. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    In addition, the United States is also considering the disadvantages of the United States being the first in the world to develop the atomic bomb after the war, and there is no way to know what the power of the atomic bomb will be without conducting an actual combat exercise, but the reason why they bombed Japan is Pizhen.

  13. Anonymous users2024-01-25

    The United States bombed Japan on its own. The United States was a neutral country at the time, but Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, which caused heavy losses in Misanharu, and the United States immediately declared war against Japan, dispatched planes to bomb the Japanese mainland, and dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-24

    Because during World War II, Japan had the intention of imperialist ambition, burned, killed and looted neighboring countries, and during this period, it also attacked the US Yehu Pearl Harbor, so the United States set an example of repentance and threw two nuclear missiles at Japan.

  15. Anonymous users2024-01-23

    The United States suffered a heavy battle in the Battle of Midway Island in Japan, and they realized that if they fought with Japan island by island, the number of people would be unimaginable.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-22

    During World War II, the United States bombed Japan because Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States, so the United States bombed Japan.

  17. Anonymous users2024-01-21

    The United States will bomb Japan because it has a war with Japan, and if it does not bomb Japan, it will not be obedient now.

  18. Anonymous users2024-01-20

    Because it is necessary to end the war as soon as possible, if you want to go to Japan to fight, it is too big to talk about it, and it is not necessarily necessary for Japan to admit defeat soon. The dropping of atomic bombs on Japan would destroy the will of the Japanese emperor, and he would soon surrender to Mo Xun.

  19. Anonymous users2024-01-19

    Because it was World War II, because they only believed that they had attacked their Pearl Harbor, so if they said it, he would carry out the bombing of him.

  20. Anonymous users2024-01-18

    The United States is afraid that Japan will become the boss of Asia, and it will dominate Asia or even surpass the United States?

  21. Anonymous users2024-01-17

    The original fight against hunger is very complicated, and such a big historical event is certainly not something that can be explained clearly in a few words, and if you are interested, you can go back and read various historical materials of the Second World War.

  22. Anonymous users2024-01-16

    The United States bombed Japan, and Japan deserved it.

  23. Anonymous users2024-01-15

    Why did the United States bomb Japan because Japan attacked the Pearl Island of the United States and he was also the main mango of World War II.

  24. Anonymous users2024-01-14

    In addition to dropping the original Liang's bullet on the Japanese battlefield, the United States has also done a lot of "inhumane" acts on other battlefields

    That. 1. The use of poison gas bombs in Shangganling;

    That. 2. The use of napalm in Changjin Lake;

    That. 3. Putting a large amount of "Agent Orange" in Vietnam;

    That. Fourth, the use of depleted uranium munitions in Yugoslavia;

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  25. Anonymous users2024-01-13

    Why did the United States bomb Japan? This is impossible, and it is impossible for the United States to bomb Japan, so you can rest assured about this.

  26. Anonymous users2024-01-12

    You can reduce the subsidy for the death of the US military...

  27. Anonymous users2024-01-11

    Hello, on this issue, because Japan sneaked up on Pearl Harbor in the United States.

  28. Anonymous users2024-01-10

    The inevitable comings and goings in war.

  29. Anonymous users2024-01-09

    Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor in the United States?

  30. Anonymous users2024-01-08

    Strategic deterrence, also for the sake of experimental results.

  31. Anonymous users2024-01-07

    It was difficult in the early stage, because Japan is far away from the United States, and Japan has a very strong naval team.

    The Tokyo air raids during this period, also known as the Doolittle air raids, were particularly courageous and skill-testing. On April 18, 1942, 16 U.S. B-25 bombers took off from an aircraft carrier and attacked Tokyo. The result was not good, causing losses to the Japanese of about 50 people, and 16 planes, because they flew too far and did not have enough fuel, most of the crew abandoned the plane and parachuted into China, some were rescued by the guerrillas, and some were captured and executed by the Japanese army.

    After the Battle of Midway, the Japanese fleet was gradually completely finished, and the air force was insufficient.

    After February 1945, the U.S. Air Force launched a large-scale air raid on Japan, mainly by dropping incendiary bombs, killing nearly 500,000 Japanese civilians and displacing 8 million civilians.

  32. Anonymous users2024-01-06

    On April 18, 1942, the United States launched an air raid on Tokyo against Japan in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The mission was planned by Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, who was a famous pilot before the war, so it was also called the "Doolittle Air Raid". The aircraft on the mission were 16 American B-25 Mitchell bombers.

    The plane was originally planned to take off from an aircraft carrier 880 kilometers from Tokyo and finally land in China, but was forced to take off 300 kilometers earlier due to the expansion of the cordon by Yamamoto Isoroku. But the attack was mainly a symbolic mission, and almost all of the planes flew to Zhejiang, China, and other places after the bombing.

    Because of the range, the average bomber could not find a place to take off. The first U.S. attack using B-29s was on June 15, 1944, when 47 B-29s took off from Chengdu to bomb the Yawata Iron and Steel Plant in Kyushu, Japan. But the attack did not cause much damage, with only 47 of the 68 planes hitting targets, four failing to take off, four crashing, six having to abandon their bombs on the way due to mechanical problems, one being shot down, and most of the rest bombing only secondary targets.

    The first attack from the south was on November 24, 1944, when the U.S. military sent 88 bombers to attack Tokyo in an attempt to carry out a daytime precision bombing. The planes dropped bombs at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and as a result, only about 30 aircraft found the bombing target, about 10 per cent hit the intended target, and only one aircraft factory was slightly damaged.

    At that time, the U.S. military did not capture military bases such as the Mariana Islands and Iwo Jima, and if it was from China, there would be supply problems, and the distance was too far, and the B-29 taking off from China had to reduce the bomb load to carry fuel, so the B-29 only launched a limited attack on Japan during China's days. It was not until MacArthur's island-hopping tactics captured some islands close to Japan that the U.S. 20th Air Force was assigned to the 21st Bombardment Division and began preparations for a large-scale bombing of Japan's Honshu.

  33. Anonymous users2024-01-05

    It's like making money in the of the toilet.

  34. Anonymous users2024-01-04

    At the end of World War II, in order to finally destroy Japan's economic power and disintegrate Japan's military morale, the United States stepped up its strategic bombing of the Japanese mainland.

    On April 2, 1945, the U.S. Strategic Air Force's 20th Air Force dispatched B-29 heavy bomber formations from the Mariana Islands to attack Japanese airfields and other targets in Tokyo, Yokohama, and southern Kyushu on the 2nd, 13th, 15th, 17th, 18th, 21st, 22nd, 28th, and 29th. On the 5th, carrier-based aircraft of the US Navy's 5th Fleet attacked Kyushu, Japan.

    By the end of the war, the United States had carried out a total of 81 bombing sorties against Japan, carrying out 10,000 sorties and dropping 140,000 tons of bombs, thus hastening the collapse of Japanese militarism.

  35. Anonymous users2024-01-03

    Revealed: In 1945, U.S. bombers attacked Tokyo, Japan.

  36. Anonymous users2024-01-02

    Before the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. Air Force had already carried out strategic bombing by the U.S. military on all major cities in Japan, causing more than the subsequent atomic bomb attacks. In January 1945, Curtis

  37. Anonymous users2024-01-01

    End the Second World War early. Divide up a little more.

  38. Anonymous users2023-12-31

    At the end of World War II, the United States bombed Japan countless times.

    Are you referring to the time when the atomic bomb was dropped?

  39. Anonymous users2023-12-30

    I can only say that the real purpose of the United States may be to end the war, but it is definitely not to help allies such as China and Britain reduce their losses. Americans have always been very selfish in doing things, and they will not do things that are not beneficial to themselves. The United States can even calculate the United Kingdom, not to mention us, and that poor little Japan.

    Perhaps the United States wanted to test the lethality of the atomic bomb in Japan so as to improve the atomic bomb suitable for use against the Soviet Union in the future.

  40. Anonymous users2023-12-29

    The United States wants to alleviate ** and wants to end the war early.

    And before that, the United States was vigorously developing nuclear **.

  41. Anonymous users2023-12-28

    Experiment with the effects of the atomic bomb @

  42. Anonymous users2023-12-27

    Three times, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the conventional bombing of Tokyo.

  43. Anonymous users2023-12-26

    On April 18, 1942, Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle's B 25 bomber attacked Tokyo, June 15, 1944 In March 1945, the U.S. military used B29 to take off from Kolkata and Chengdu airfields in India to bomb Japan.

    On November 17, 1944, U.S. B29 bombers began to take off from Saipan to bomb the Tokyo area, and on March 9, 1945, all the bombs were changed to incendiary bombs and burned Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe and other important cities.

    On August 6 and 9, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Nagasaki.

  44. Anonymous users2023-12-25

    If you are talking about the Doolittle bombing of Tokyo, then the 15 bombers on the mission landed in the Soviet Union and in the provinces of southeastern China.

    The crew members who landed in the Soviet Union were first detained, and after the establishment of an alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union, they were returned to the United States;

    Most of the crews who landed in China, under the cover and protection of local guerrillas, were sent to the safety of the rear;

    But some were captured, some of them were killed or killed, and the rest were liberated after the war.

  45. Anonymous users2023-12-24

    In addition to the reason for prompting Japan to surrender as soon as possible, especially before the Soviet Union sent troops, there was another reason why the United States dropped the atomic bomb, and that was to focus on the consideration of the aftermath of the war. The United States was the first in the world to successfully develop an atomic bomb, but the world has no way of knowing how powerful the atomic bomb really is without conducting a combat test.

    On May 8, 1945, the German fascists, the culprit of World War II, announced Sakurahiro's unconditional surrender. On July 26, the United States, the United Kingdom, and China issued the "Potsdam Declaration", urging Japan to surrender quickly and unconditionally, but Japan ignored it.

    In order to force Japan to surrender quickly, at 8:15 on August 6, 1945, a U.S. B 29 bomber flew over the city of Tanxun in Hiroshima, Japan, and dropped an atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy". To be more precise, the atomic bomb was not the decisive factor that prompted Japan to surrender, but only the factor that pushed Japan to surrender as soon as possible; The atomic bomb was not the decisive reason for changing the course of the war, but only the reason for speeding up the course of the war.

  46. Anonymous users2023-12-23

    The "visit" of American bombers to Tokyo caused great consternation throughout Japan. Hideki Tojo, a war maniac, lost his temper at the failure of the Navy and Army to guard against it, which he considered "a disgrace to the Imperial Army." Admiral Yamamoto was shocked and ashamed of this, and he entrusted the task of pursuing the American ship to Chief of Staff Ugaki to command, and locked himself in his room and refused to come out.

    The squire had never seen him so pale and depressed. General Ugaki wrote in his diary that night: "We must ascertain the type and number of enemy aircraft so as to improve countermeasures against enemy attacks in the future."

    In short, today victory belongs to the enemy. "The success of this air raid on Tokyo has boosted the morale of the US military, which has been depressed since the attack on Pearl Harbor. This action seems to be a guarantee that the United States is about to take an offensive posture.

    The Allies on the battlefields, as well as the prisoners in each of the camps, felt a new hope. The most far-reaching impact of the bombing of Tokyo was a huge psychological impact on the slag and the Imperial Japanese General Staff. Japan's defeat at the Battle of Midway is a case in point.

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