The Success of
the B-29 Raids

“Radio Tokyo admitted that the entire districts of Asakusa, Fukagawa and Mukojima had been burned out by the fire bomb assaults, while the wards of Shitaya Honjo, Izumibashi, Kansa and Arakawa had sustained ‘heavy damage’. All districts named are in the industrialized outer perimeter of the capital, where the great aircraft assembly plants are located.”

Click here to read about the U.S. intelligence agency that first heard this radio broadcast.