日本橋(01 of23)
Open Image Modal空襲直後、日本橋から両国方面を望む。上方を横に流れるのは隅田川 (credit:Library of Congress)
(02 of23)
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(03 of23)
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浅草・仲見世通り(04 of23)
Open Image ModalThe photo taken on March 19, 1945 shows survivors commute through destroyed Nakamise shopping street after Tokyo firebombing. Asakusa district in Tokyo. (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
吾妻橋(05 of23)
Open Image ModalThe photo taken on March 19, 1945 shows an incendiary bomb-devastated Azuma Bridge after Tokyo firebombing. (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, Eugene Hoshiko) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
浅草(06 of23)
Open Image Modal空襲直後の浅草付近。右上は浅草寺で、右端に隅田川が流れる (credit:Library of Congress)
亀戸(07 of23)
Open Image ModalThe Photo taken on March 19, 1945 shows incendiary bomb-devastated area of Kameido district after Tokyo firebombing, seen from Kameido Tenjin Bridge.The B-29s flew much lower on March 10, in the dead of the night, dumping massive payloads of incendiary bombs on both residential areas and military targets. (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
亀戸天神付近(08 of23)
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隅田川(09 of23)
Open Image ModalThe photo taken on March 19, 1945 shows an incendiary bomb-devastated area and Sumida-gawa Bridge after Tokyo firebombing. (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
吾妻橋から見た浅草・松屋(10 of23)
Open Image ModalThe photo taken on March 19, 1945 shows an incendiary bomb-devastated Matsuya Asakusa department store, seen from Azuma Bridge after Tokyo firebombing. (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
浅草・神谷バーと松屋(11 of23)
Open Image ModalThe top photo taken on March 19, 1945 shows survivors commute near an incendiary bombed Kamiya Bar, left, and Matsuya Asakusa department store, right after Tokyo firebombing. (AP Photo/The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, Eugene Hoshiko) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(12 of23)
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(13 of23)
Open Image ModalTokyo residents who lost their homes as a result of the U.S. bombings. 10th March 1945. The Operation Meetinghouse air raid of 9-10 March 1945 was later estimated to be the single most destructive bombing raid in history. It was part of a series of firebombing raids, conducted by the United States Army Air Forces during the Pacific campaigns of World War II. Photo: Kouyou Ishikawa, officer of the Metropolitan Police Department. Tokyo, Japan. (Photo By Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images) (credit:Galerie Bilderwelt via Getty Images)
皇居周辺(14 of23)
Open Image Modal1945 World War II Tokyo Bombing and Emperor\'s Palace. Fire raids hit Tokyo and some buildings on the Emperor\'s Palace Grounds. (Photo by Iconic Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Iconic Archive via Getty Images)
(15 of23)
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空中写真(皇居周辺)(16 of23)
Open Image ModalIn this photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, plumes of smoke, rising 15,000 feet in the air several hours after Tokyo was hit by a force of more than 300 Marianas-based Superfortresses of the 21st Bomber Command, March 10, 1945, show the effect of the heavy bombing which burned out huge areas near the Imperial Palace (right, center). (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
皇居周辺(17 of23)
Open Image Modal1945 World War II Tokyo Bombing and Emperor\'s Palace. Fire raids hit Tokyo and some buildings on the Emperor\'s Palace Grounds. (Photo by Iconic Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Iconic Archive via Getty Images)
遠くに富士山(18 of23)
Open Image ModalSmoke pours from the area, lower right, of Tokyo, following an attack by a force of more than 300 Marianas-based B-29s, March 10, 1945. The photo, made several hours after the bombing, shows the Imperial Palace in center, right, and in the distance is Mt. Fuji, sacred mountain of Japan. (AP Photo/Pool) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
空襲前・1945年2月23日(19 of23)
Open Image ModalThis is how American bombers attacking Japan, see the harbour of Tokyo. The picture was taken by a B-29 Superfortress over the Japanese capital, it shows factories shipping facilities and oil storage tanks in the war production centre surrounding Tokyo on Feb. 23, 1945. The railway bridge in the centre and ships at the dockside, left centre. (AP Photo) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
(20 of23)
Open Image Modal9th March 1945: An airfield near Tokyo where the Japanese airforce has been destroyed by the Allied aircraft bombing campaign. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (credit:Hulton Archive via Getty Images)
(21 of23)
Open Image Modal (credit:Wikimedia Koyo Ishikawa)
(22 of23)
Open Image Modal (credit:Wikimedia Koyo Ishikawa)
(23 of23)
Open Image Modal (credit:Wikimedia Koyo Ishikawa)