Diary March 9, 1945

War Diary, 03-1945, Diary WW2, Year 1945 / 1 minute of reading

Tokio after 'March Fire Blitz' — Tokyo the day after the ‘March Fire Blitz’: the slightly built houses burned like straw. After a single air raid a quarter of the city is destroyed.

Diary for Friday, March 9, 1945:

Air War

Pacific: ‘MARCH FIRE BLITZ’ ON TOKYO. 279 low-flying B-29 Superfortresses drop 1,667 t. napalm and oil bombs on Tokyo (night March 9-10); ‘fire-storm’ devastates 26 sq km of built-up area, killing 84,000; 102,000 injured, a million rendered homeless. Similar raids on Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe. Inadequate Japanese defenses and ARP services are unable to cope.

Occupied countries

Indochina: Japanese depose Vichyite administration, forcibly disarm French garrisons, and establish puppet ‘Empire of Annam’.

Western Front

Patton and Hodges (1st and 9th US Armies) join forces near Remagen.

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Kretaner

My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

Air War

Occupied countries

Western Front

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