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Air operations involving the Japanese Home Islands may be divided into several stages:

Operations

• Doolittle Raid: attack by 16 USAAF B-25 Mitchells in April 1942
• US air raids on Iwo Jima, Minami Torishima, the Kurils and other outlying islands
• Operation Matterhorn: B-29 air attacks from bases in China, beginning in June 1944
• Frequent B-29 air attacks from bases on Saipan and Tinian against major metropolitan areas, including the major bombing campaign against Tokyo
• US and British Pacific Fleet air strikes against the Ryukyu Islands
• Tactical operations by US Navy aircraft against Kyūshū, Shikoku, Honshū and Hokkaido
• US night raids against Japanese cities
• Soviet air attacks against Japanese forces in Kuriles, Chosen and Kantogun during August-November 1945.
• US nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 1945)

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See also

• Attacks on North America during World War II
• Battle of Britain
• Battle of Berlin (air)
• Battle of Europe (air operations)
• Air raids on Australia, 1942–43