Bombing of Tokyo in the World Warthat I experienced

at the time of six years old

2011 1 15
72 Bombing of Tokyo in the Word War

6
1943
strategic bombing 1944 11
1 1945 5 25 1945 8 15
1945 8 15 calendar
year
fully years
1938 8 15 1940 3 1942 3
1944 3 5 1944 3
1 2
prosecutor 2
Figure 1my family's house

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3 5

1941 7 10
hospital 2 11
1941 12 8
uptown
3
my grandfather
my grandmother

brothersister
4 President Franklin D.
Roosevelt
a tank for water
supply for fire fighting 1.5m 1m 1m 35

mosquito larva
air-raid shelter
1m 1.5m 2.5m5m
50cm 3
incendiary bombdirect impact
penetration

10
dogscatsbecause
of the very bad food situation

skirt

mens
national uniforms during WW

11

helmet

brow

temple bells
shells

ladle
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/kmy22jp/31566990.html

air raid fire hood

http://www.geocities.jp/aoi1936/1/newpage3.htm

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%82%E3%82%93%E3%81%BA
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9B%BD%E6%B0%91%E6%9C%8D

http://www3.kcn.ne.jp/~eatyhiro/new_page_42.htm
http://www3.kcn.ne.jp/~eatyhiro/new_page_42.htm

decisive battle slogan

a town assembly chief

falling down
4

labor service
cleaningcocking
bathscrap woods

Do not fall down till I shoot an enemy

and destroy ithttp://www.cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/~tamura/utitesiyamann.htm
The luxury is an enemy

http://www.cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/~tamura/utitesiyamann.htm

actual planes
airplane model

BoeingB-29 Superfortress
a utility
polethe
ceiling
16 4 1
elementary school 22 3 31
5

the
slums
covered with mucus

http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2124868128513631744/2124868738978993548

flag-raising ceremony pole

the Sino-Japanese War

kindergarten

3 5
1944 19
kindergarten closedown law1944 4 5

6 Saipan 5
tremble B-29

1944.8.15 6

50m 70
100

1975.12.1 30

stone wall 1945.5.23 conflagration

1944 10
freight trainrailroad track

JR armored vehicle
6

artillery

1944.11.1 B-29 air defense alarmair-raid alarm

B-29 1
B-29

11

4km

B-29 vapor trails

factory districts
vague information

3000

blackoutstreetlamp

illuminationsupport

unpatriotic
personsbellows

1m

36
36
175cm

20
physical examination for conscription
Tokyo Imperial Universitythe faculty of law
regimental commander

crowssparrowsexplosion
antiaircraft gunnoise of firing

B-29
submarine 2
cinema theater
US Navy shipsswordsheath 1
actor

4
a kindergartner

Waseda Universitya mascot character

7

promoting fighting spirit

If a light leaks out a little, an enemy plane will be invited

decreehttp://otomodachi.net/toukakansei.htm
http://page11.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/n85822453
animationa shot
http://nicosound.anyap.info/sound/sm7569548
http://dprkbb.exblog.jp/m2007-02-01/

1944.12.7 1 M7.9earthquake
B-29
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1944.12.27 2
1 B-29 B-29

interceptor fighters

1 a friendly fighter

peanut
1 2
Saigon cinnamon
1

acorn

20km
rich man 2

the Nanjing National Government of China

a high official for the government

turbanan Indian

12

1945 2
30cm 3 3
shoesrucksack
antiaircraft hood

7 the Imperial HeadquartersPhilippine

Leytean offensive and defensive battle
150

General Tomoyuki Yamashitathe supreme commander


B-29 North AmericanP-51
Mustang

1 corporal 1944.12.3 B-29

return alive
P-51 gallant
enterprise B-29 main
wings 5
12 B-29

P8

12 Mitukoshi
Department store

2 (

B-29
http://home.earthlink.net/~sshinoda/wing/hien-b29.jpg

searchlight
B-29 B-29 4 2
comrade planes
antiaircraft projectiles B-29 flight
B-29
hit
during nighttime air raid

projectile fragment
fish sausage
10

B-29
fountain pensbombs
B-29
B-29 3000m 1000m
B-29
1000

Pearl
Harbor
1945.2.17 B-29 B-29
carrier-borne aircraft

5 24
B-29
a friendly fighter

B-29
B-29

B-29
28

400m Infectious Disease

Laboratory 400m

11


1944.10
chrysanthemum

3 4
medical checkup 1
satchela pencil
box

http://www.matsuyomi.co.jp/showashi/showashi_BN_029.html

3 9

B-29
300m 300
B-29 300m B-29

the lower part of a town

many killed people
3 10 10

3 10
B-29

Imperial capital citizen

12


circular
flight
the Emperor 3 10
disaster area
http://pub.ne.jp/bbgmgt/?entry_id=1253133
1945.3.19

3 17 Iwo Jimaa honorable death

bowing2
map
Japan proper
P-51

3 10 3 4
closing 1
1945.9.1
4 Okinawathe
Ryukyu Islands 10 1

B-29

B-29

13

1947 3
1945.5.23 3 B-29
B-29 300m

from instinct
parachute
crew

B-29

http://www.kmine.sakura.ne.jp/kusyu/kuusyu.html

50
B-29 300m

B-29

B-29 3 10
22
B-29
B-29 B-29

B-29
14

170cm 20
victims
angry roarviolence

90
B-29 C C class war crimes

6
2
7 23

glass
6 8cm 50shells
bands 23

23

7
moonlight
dead bodies

1km

7 5 24
relativeresidence
1935 all site
mansion 50m 30m
warehouse3
toys

2
1

5 25 2
white phosphorusoil and fats

a war orphan
fate
the Crown Princess
15

 5 25

residence

10
150m

100m
1.5km
straw-thatched rooffarming familiescountry

upland ricepotato

9
100 1
shelter doom
50cm
1

ground crews

toolsold clothmilitary policemen

spiders 2
2

http://www.arakawas.sakura.ne.jp/backn015/chouenta/chouent1.html

http://www.kmine.sakura.ne.jp/kusyu/kuusyu.html

pilot

persons of few words

http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~s244f/sentaisi.htm

16


16
http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~s244f/sentaisi.htm 1944.12.3 B-29
1945.1.17

duralumin

12 B-29
silhouette 12 B-29 defeat

score mark

9 1

fragrance
spirit 20
1965.11
cast-off skin
dead body

Hokkaido Universitythe faculty

of engineeringJapanese Defense Agency
Japanese Defense Ministry

Technical Research and Development Instituteweapons

34

sighting device
a control sticka vertical tail
613 liquid cooling
a decisive battle fighter to Japan for WW
17


4
84

cockpit
http://www.aerosim.co.jp/aero/a-product/cfs3/army/army_fighter_pnl.html

runway
300B-29 P-51
return

trustworthy
2 P-51
-44
18

roly-poly 1
B-29

zerohostile
words
zero fighter
B-29

dignity6

B-29
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~un3k-mn/kusyu-b29.htm

B-29
19

steep descent
zoom B-29
brave figure

the octane number

that
excessive noise

http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~s244f/enkaku.htm 16 20
17
144 244

officersnoncommissioned officersprivates

lance corporal
corporal
a rifleE-2
E-1khaki
gaiterssaber

second lieutenant

captain 1
a badge of rank
an order

resourcesmetal shortage

donationmagnet
iron sands

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BB%8D%E5%88%80

http://hall3001.web.infoseek.co.jp/pla/newgun/jpna1.htm
http://page.freett.com/zaj17637/16/1.html

suicide pilots

5
6

kamikaze

20

6
4 1 B-29
B-29 windshieldthe palm of a hand
a fragmentthe thickness
2 1.5cm seemed to be firm

B-29 awful bomberinstruments and

materials B-29
an impressive incident B-29
21

2010.3.231945.4.
B-29 suicide attackB-29
11 10
77
B-29 female crews
Starlingrad
Moscow

B-29

1945 5 26 72
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5%E6%94%BB%E6%92%83%E9%9A%8A
10 10 (
56 ) 25 10 3 17 2

1945 4 12 20

-43

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5%E6%94%BB%E6%92%83%E9%9A%8A

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20

shopsa newspaper agency

a clog shop

a bicycle shoprationing 23 rice

miso or soybean paste
soy sauce
salt
wheat flour
cocking oil
vegetables
fishes
eggs
milk
dairy products
Japanese rice-wine

match
clothingrationing systemration tickets
2 3
4

22

sake leessalt water

substitute soy sauce
stir-fried
vegetables
toilet papera piece of newspaper
6
http://homepage3.nifty.com/yoshihito/haikyuu.htm
http://homepage3.nifty.com/yoshihito/haikyuu.htm
1 after standing by for landing
B-29 P-51

forced landing

skull

B-29 7
handbills
surrender
metal sheets

silver paperjamming

B-29
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8 6

P-51 scarf
P-51 B-29
disappointment

1945.7.28
Tokyo Astronomical Observatory

National Astronomical Observatory of

Japanmy parent's home 4km
P-51 machine-gunning
safety

13

http://image.search.yahoo.co.jp/search?rkf=2&ei=UTF-8&p=%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E5%A4%A
7%E7%A9%BA%E8%A5%B2

24

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Berlin

40

napalm
bomb
5

1945.8.6 84

8 10

1945.8.8 1km

1945.2.16
8.15 B-29P-51 15
8.15
1945.8.9 the Soviet UnionManchuria
territory
Russo-Japanese Neutrality
promise

1945.8.14 grave announcement

the loss of a battle

echo
1945.8.15

6 1 5
1

73

4 23 4 1 24
3 31 nocturnal enuresis
25


shame
6
stupidity
strike
http://tamutamu2011.kuronowish.com/gyokuonnhousou.htm
1937.9.8 20 1916.10.12 20
3 NHKthe Japan Broadcasting Corporation
1944.3.29 35 1908.4.29 1933 the
National Bar Examination 4 2 the second grade

trauma

70
4 1

a
shameless totalitarian nationthe People's Republic of Chinanational
basis
invasion
80 90 6

26

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35

Exclusive
Economic Zoneviolation of the border

http://www10.ocn.ne.jp/~kuushuu/mia.html1945.5.24
44-69777 B-29

ZWEIFEL, Everett E.

0-424817

FAIYRE, Gerald E.

0-798465

McENENY, George H.

0-698742

MILLER, Myron S.

0-700032

27

MORRIS, Victor E.

0-868028

FREND, Harry H.

32816754

ROSE, John G. Jr.

34665565

O'NEILL, George J. Jr.

19189705

MICHAEL, Gerald N.

17156423

KIEREIN, Andrew J.

35552087

COE, William L.

36537860

http://www10.ocn.ne.jp/~kuushuu/mia.html1945.4.8
42-652127 B-29

WISE, John O.

0-429139

JONES, Raymond S.

0-761958

HERTZEL, Garson H.

0-695660

THOMAS, Benedict

0-698792

WYNIA, Thomas H.

0-866744

TAYLOR, Vernon

17127431

SELLZ, Norman

17165467

VALERI, William J.

35593417

CHOQUET, Lawrence H.

17159622

BYRNE, Edward T.

12208753

McNULTY, Blaine G.

37344647

B-29 (2)1945.4.18
100 29 30
4 8 3
B-29
500 6
29 11 1 1
http://kurumenmon.com/tatiarai/tatiaraihikoujyoukanren/airport2.html
http://www10.ocn.ne.jp/~kuushuu/mia.html1945.4.18
42-65231 B-29
0 AINA, Pasquale
T.

http://www.iza.ne.jp/news/newsarticle/natnews/topics/458661/

ANDERSON, Robert J.

0-726731

McCAUSLAND, Robert E.

0-748722

CRISTENSEN, Donald A.

0-703701

KENNEDY, Maurice E.

0-702929

28

ADAMS, Robert E.

0-862857

FRASON, Leroy E.

17004403

AINA, Pasquale T.

32138406

KOPENITSI, William

16134382

SODORERA. Alexander

32555706

SMITH, Raymond L

37675923

HAWKINS, Raymond A.

34605262

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