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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 United States 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
Basing
- Tinian [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Iwo Jima [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Guam [r]: Civilian-governed U.S. territory in the geographic Mariana Islands of Micronesia but not part of the political Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; major U.S. military base, including a prepositioning ship squadron and Anderson Air Force Base for bomber aircraft and air refueling tankers, growing with the transfer of forces from Okinawa. [e]
- 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