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Parent topics

• Strategic bombing [r]: Strategic strike attacks against the homeland military forces, population and industry of a nation, conducted by manned bomber aircraft ^[e]
• United States Army Air Force [r]: Branch of the U.S. armed forces responsible for land-based aircraft, as well as land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles ^[e]
  • Twentieth Air Force [r]: The organization responsible to Air Force Space Command for the readiness of U.S. land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, and to the U.S. Strategic Command for their operational use ^[e]

Subtopics

Personalities

• Henry Arnold [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Curtis LeMay [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Heywood Hansell [r]: Add brief definition or description

Technology

• B-29 Superfortress [r]: The heaviest bomber aircraft of the Second World War, used by the United States to attack the Japanese home islands, at very long range; delivered nuclear weapons to Hiroshima and Nagasaki ^[e]
• Incendiary bomb [r]: Add brief definition or description
• FAT MAN (nuclear weapon) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• LITTLE BOY (nuclear weapon) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Mine (naval warfare) [r]: A naval explosive weapon that waits passively for a target to come into its range, and then detonates or releases a mobile weapon once its sensors detect an appropriate target ^[e]

=Organization

• XXth Bomber Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
• XXIth Bomber Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • 58th Bomb Wing [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • 313th Bomb Wing [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • 314th Bomb Wing [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • 315th Bomb Wing [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • 509th Bomb Wing [r]: Add brief definition or description

Basing

• Tinian [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Iwo Jima [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Guam [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Saipan [r]: Add brief definition or description

Operations

• Firebombing of Tokyo [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nuclear attacks on Japan [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Nuclear attack on Hiroshima [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Nuclear attack on Nagasaki [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Additional planned nuclear attacks on Japan [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Arthur Harris [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Counterforce [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Countervalue [r]: Add brief definition or description