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The bombing of Chongqing (, (日本語:重慶爆撃), from 18 February 1938 to 23 August 1943) was part of a terror bombing operation conducted by Imperial Japanese Army Air Service and Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the Chinese provisional capital of Chongqing, authorized by the Imperial General Headquarters. A total of 268 air raids were conducted against Chongqing, with more than 11,500 bombs dropped, mainly incendiary bombs. The targets were usually residential areas, business areas, schools, hospitals (non-military targets). These bombings were probably aimed at cowing the Chinese government, or as part of the planned Sichuan invasion. ==The raids== In the first two days of the campaign, the raids of May 1939 killed more than five thousand Chinese civilians.〔, p.364〕 Two months later, after tens of thousands of deaths, in retaliation for firebombing, the United States embargoed the export of airplane parts to Japan, thus imposing its first economic sanction against Japan.〔 On 5 June 1941, the Japanese flew more than 20 sorties, bombing the city for 3 hours. About 4,000 residents who hid in a tunnel were asphyxiated.〔, pp.11, 8〕 The majority of the air raids conducted against Chongqing were made with squadrons of Mitsubishi G3Ms, known as ''Nells'', Mitsubishi Ki-1-Is, Fiat BR.20s Cicogna (''Ruths''), Mitsubishi Ki-21s ''Sallys'' and Kawasaki Ki-48s ''Lilys'' although towards the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Mitsubishi G4Ms (''Bettys''), Nakajima Ki-49s Donryu (''Helens''), Yokosuka P1Ys Ginga (''Frances'') and Mitsubishi Ki-67s Hiryu (''Peggys'') were also employed. Due to the unpreparedness of the Chinese Air Force at the beginning of the war, many of the air raids were totally unopposed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bombing of Chongqing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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