page_title: Bombing of Kobe in World War II
section_title: See also
hierarchical_section_title: Bombing of Kobe in World War II / See also
caption_attribution_description: English: image showing bombed-out areas of Kobe, Japan Summary Subsection of :Image:JapaneseCityDestroyedAreas.png map focusing on Kobe alone. Original work is from a 1946 U.S. Government survey of WWII bombing damage in Japanese cities.
context_page_description: The bombing of Kobe in World War II on March 16 and 17, 1945, was part of the strategic bombing campaign waged by the United States against military and civilian targets and population centers during the Japan home islands campaign in the closing stages of World War II. The city would be bombed again in later months.
context_section_description: Pacific War
  Pacific Theater of Operations
  Bombing of Tokyo
  Grave of the Fireflies (short story), a semi-autobiographical short story set during the bombing
  Grave of the Fireflies, an anime film based on the novel
caption: Extent of destroyed areas of Kobe as surveyed in 1946
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