Table of Data Points

Tag : Japan

1945-03-27Operation Starvation

The Twentieth Air Force flew 1,529 sorties and laid 12,135 mines in 26 locations. The aerial mining operation was designed to disrupt enemy shipping and it was extremely effective. They were responsible for the destruction of 670 Japanese ships.

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1945-03-21British liberate Mandalay

British troops take Mandalay, Burma.

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1945-03-11Operation Tan No. 2

Of 24 "Frances" twin-engine bombers, which were sent on a long-range Kamikaze mission directed at the main Allied naval fleet anchorage at Ulithi atol, only two arrived to damage the USS Randolph.

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1945-03-10Tokyo Firebombing

Over 100,000 people are killed when the 334 B-29s of the United States Army Air Forces drop incendiary bombs on Tokyo. Approximately 267,000 buildings are destroyed.

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1945-03-081945-03-15Meatgrinder

Following a series of disastrous assaults, General Erskine orders the 9th Marine Regiment to attack at night, without preliminary artillery bombardment. The tactics are more effective and eventually the mutually supporting positions are overwhelmed.

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1945-03-04Dinah Might Lands

The first of thousands of B-29s to follow, the 'Dinah Might', low on fuel and damaged, makes an emergency landing on airstrip number 1 on Iwo Jima, 21 days before the island is entirely in allied hands.

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1945-02-23Iwo Jima Flag Raising

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five United States Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

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1945-02-23Los Banos

US 11th Airborne troops and Filipino guerrillas free prisoners at the Los Banos internment camp.

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1945-02-21Bismark Sea Sunk

Two Japanese kamikazes hit the Bismarck Sea, first on the starboard side under the first 40 mm gun (aft) and then the aft elevator shaft. The sea water distribution system was destroyed along with any hope of damage control. The crew abandoned ship.

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1945-02-191945-03-26Iwo Jima

Of the more than 18,000 Japanese soldiers charged with the defense of Iwo Jima, the first of the Japanese Home Islands, only 216 survive the battle. This was the only battle in the Pacific where US casualties (KIA+Wounded) outnumbered Japanese casualties.

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