Target Tokyo

*7.0

Status

Released

Production

First Motion Picture Unit, United States Army Air Forces

Aired

1945-05-24

Target Tokyo

The story of the first bombing raid on Tokyo by B-29 Superfortress bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Crews are followed from their training staging at Grand Island, Nebraska to their bombing embarkation point on the island of Saipan. From there, the B-29 attack on the Nakajima aircraft plant outside Tokyo is depicted.