WW2 · SITE OF MEMORY · 1945

Firebombing of Tokyo (1945)

9–10 Mar 1945 — About 100,000 people die in a single night of firebombing in Tokyo. Their deaths remain central to debate about the moral cost of the air war and victory.

When: 9–10 Mar 1945
Type: Site of memory
Chapter: End of WW2 in the Pacific (chapter 14 of WW2)
Atlas: The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945

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These maps are reconstructed from published sources · US Army Center of Military History — American Military History, The War Against Japan · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · Natural Earth — physical reference geography

Source details

Office of the Chief of Military History,1969, chapter23. Official US Army text and maps; public domain
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
Natural Earth. Public domain

The post-surrender state uses 1946 aggregate control and the earliest separately published Japanese and Korean outlines as disclosed regional references. Administrative transitions in late August and September share this ending chapter.

The separately published Tibetan polity remains neutral. The authored modern-China interaction region does not make Tibet a Chinese battlefield or Allied-controlled territory.

The dates of published political outlines retain the resolution available in their sources. Military fronts and operational perimeters have their own source and method records.

proxy: Earliest separately published postwar source region;1945occupation reference · reconstruction: 1936–1937 · reconstruction: 1936–1937 source state · reconstruction: 1945 · reconstruction: 1945.62 · reconstruction: 1946–1946 · reconstruction: 1946–2023 · vector: 1890–1978 · vector: 1890–2023 · vector: 1932–1955 · vector: 1939–1946 · vector: 1944–1946 · vector: 1945–1947 · vector: 1946–1946 · vector: 1946–1948 · vector: 1946–1975

Layer records and reconstruction methods