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How were the Japan's Cities Air-Striked? (5 of 21) Toyama, where 99% of the City was Burned by B29 Campaign

__ B-29 was designed to drop bombs from high altitude. At the begining of B-29 campaigns, military bases and war industries of Japan were targeted from High altitude with High-explosive bombs. But thick clouds and strong air flow prevented from accurate bombing. The "daylight precision bombing" from high altitude was not so effective to destroy war facilities in Japan. __ So bombing method was changed so that B-29s would drop incendiary bombs from low altitude in night. And targets were also changed from war industries to residential area which was very easy to be burned out. Since the Japan's air defense had already become very weak, loss of B-29 was estimated to be acceptable. Besides, flying low altitude made it possible to carry more bomb weight with saving fuel use. __ It was indiscriminative, carpet bombing. But B-29 campaign was not the only one incliminated bombings. Japan also did it on Chinese cities. Among them, ChongChing was bombed in indiscriminative way from 1939 to 1941. Numbers of deaths were said to be 11,889. This number does not include 10,000 citizens deaths in the shelter on June 5,1941. [PREVIOUS] [NEXT] [Top of "Nagaoka Air Raid"]