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World War II: XX Bomber Command responds to the Japanese Operation Ichi-Go offensive by dropping five hundred tons of incendiary bombs on a supply base in Hankow, China.
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XX Bomber Command
1941-1948 United States Air Force operational command
The XX Bomber Command was a United States Army Air Forces bomber formation. Its last assignment was with Twentieth Air Force, based on Okinawa. It was inactivated on 16 July 1945.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Operation Ichi-Go
1944 Japanese offensive during the Second Sino-Japanese War
Operation Ichi-Go was a campaign of a series of major battles between the Imperial Japanese Army forces and the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, fought from April to December 1944. It consisted of three separate battles in the Chinese provinces of Henan,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Hankou
Former Chinese town, now a part of Wuhan, Hubei Province
Hankou, alternately romanized as Hankow, was one of the three towns merged to become modern-day Wuhan city, the capital of the Hubei province, China. It stands north of the Han and Yangtze Rivers where the Han flows into the Yangtze. Hankou is connected by bridges to its triplet…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)