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What was the consequence of the NAGAOKA AIR RAID?(Burnt area)(11 of 21) Burned Area in NAGAOKA due to the Air Raid (ref.#3, pp870)

__ 1.78 square miles (4.62 km2) was burned out. 11,986 buildings were damaged. 9,329 of them were residential housings. US evaluation said that damaged area was 1.33 square miles, or 65.5% in percentage. But real damage was more severe than that.

Type of Building	No Damage	Damaged			Total of Buildg.	Percentage
		Partially Burned	Burnout	Subtotal
Commercial Establishment	207	114	1,985	2,099	2,306	90.9%
Industrial Establishment	133	8	263	271	404	51.2%
Residential Housing	2,619	74	9,255	9,329	11,948	78.0%
Leisure and Recreation	10	0	17	17	27	62.9%
Public and Governmental	123	3	65	68	191	35.6%
Temple and Shrine	26	2	80	82	108	75.9%
Other	19	33	87	120	139	86.3%
Total	3,137	234	11,752	11,986	15,123	79.2%

(ref.#2 pp121)

__ The reason of indiscriminative incendiary bombing on urban area was said that Japan's war industries were surrounded by residential area; once houses around were burned, factories in the center would be burned together. But in the case of Nagaoka, residential area was burned mainly, while factories in the north were not attacked. Perhaps the B29 crews knew that Prisoners of War were there. It was recorded that 278 Netherlanders and 19 Americans were in Nagaoka as POWs at the end of the war. [PREVIOUS] [NEXT] [Top of "Nagaoka Air Raid"]