On November 27, 1927, the Marines bombed “peaceful villages…dropping incendiary and asphyxiating bombs on the humble shacks of defenseless campesinos” and on the day before the U.S. dropped “incendiary and gas bombs, killing thirty-two women and eleven children.”[lvi] On December 23, 192...
General MacArthur, on July 9, 1950, requested the use of Atomic bombs to protect his retreating forces. After some deliberation in Washington, this request was denied. This was the first of at least nine separate circumstances when the U.S. seriously considered...
From 1942 to 1945, the US military carried out a fire-bombing campaign of Japanese cities, killing between 200,000 and 900,000 civilians. One nighttime fire-bombing of Tokyo took 80,000 lives. During early August 1945, the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing ~130,000...
It was vital to Japan to close the Burma Road, which it did in April 1942. Besides Burma Convoy, films about the “lifeline” to sustain China’s resistance include: A Yank on the Burma Road, Bombs Over Burma, Half Way to Shanghai, China Girl, Night Plane from Chungking....
The aircraft carrier’s principal means of combat are its carrier-based aircraft—for example, airplanes and helicopters, which are armed with conventional and nuclear bombs, rockets, and torpedoes. Carriers are also armed with antiaircraft missile launchers and 76–mm to 127–mm artillery guns. ...
In April 1942, the US military launched its first-ever air attack on Japan. Known as the Doolittle Raid, eighteen US bombers took off from ships in the Pacific Ocean, struck the Tokyo area, and then landed in China, where the crews were helped by civilians and troops. Both the raid and...
In October 1941, for example, in Ichang, the Japanese army fired more than three hundred bombs containing mustard agent and the blood agent hydrogen cyanide, resulting in six hundred fatalities. Then, in February 1942, Japanese soldiers spread approximately three hundred tons of mustard agent in ...
The USS Yorktown (right and foreground) is burning after being struck by Japanese bombs while the USS Astoria (CA-34) passes in the background, June 4, 1942.(more) About 10:50 am, as the other three Japanese carriers burned, Rear Adm. Tamon Yamaguchi, commander of the battle group ...
From the Mariana Islands, B-29 bombers of the 20th Air Force carried out the bombing campaign of Japan that culminated in the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The swift demobilization of the postwar period sharply reduced the strength of the AAF to about 300,000 officers ...