Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities Photographs

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B-29 Superfortress bombers near Mount Fuji, Japan, circa Jul 1945	A destroyed district of Tokyo, Japan, circa Aug 1945

Aerial view of barren Tokyo, Japan, circa Aug 1945, photo 1 of 2	Aerial view of barren Tokyo, Japan, circa Aug 1945, photo 2 of 2

Bombing leaflet dropped on Japanese cities 72 hours before a bombing strike encouraging citizens to flee. Over 5 million of them were delivered to 35 Japanese cities by 1 Aug 1945.	LeMay bombing leaflet; over 5 million of them were delivered to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and 33 other Japanese cities by 1 Aug 1945, encouraging Japanese citizens to flee from cities for safety

Nagaoka, Japan after American aerial bombing, 1945	Osaka, Japan in ruins, circa Aug 1945

Shimonoseki, Japan in ruins, mid-1945	Shizuoka, Japan in ruins, late 1945

Structures on either side of Kencho Dori in ruins, Okayama, Japan, Aug 1945; the area in lower right corner of the photograph was the Okayama Women's Commercial School (now the Prefectural Library), and the surviving major structures in the background were the Tenmaya department store (left), Chugoku Bank building (center), and the Japanese Red Cross Okayama Hospital (right)	Fires raging in Toyama, Japan during an American air raid, 1 Aug 1945

Reconnaissance photo showing B-29 bomb damage to the Marifu rail yards (now Iwakuni Station) outside Hiroshima, Japan, 14 Aug 1945. This was the last bombing strike on this scale of the war.	View of Osaka, Japan, 14 Aug 1945

Aerial photo taken from aircraft from the USS Wasp (Essex-class) showing the near complete destruction of the Japanese city of Nagoya, late Aug 1945	Aerial view of barren Tokyo, Japan, circa Aug-Sep 1945

Devastated Osaka, Japan, circa Sep 1945; note Nankai Namba Station at far left of photo, Matsuzakaya Osaka store (now Takashimaya Higashi Annex) at bottom right edge, and Osaka Kabukiza Theater at center	Kure, Japan after American aerial bombing, late Aug 1945

Osaka, Japan in ruins, circa Aug-Sep 1945	Tokyo, Japan in ruins, Aug-Sep 1945