SATURDAY, 10 MARCH 1945
ALASKA (Eleventh Air Force): Five B-24s radar-bomb targets at Kataoka on Shimushu,
and Suribachi and Kakumabetsu on Paramushiru with unobserved results; 1 fighter
is sighted but no attack is made; 2 other B-24s on this mission abort due to
weather and mechanical trouble. B-25 missions to the Hayakegawa River and Paramushiru are also cancelled due to weather.
CHINA THEATER (Fourteenth Air Force): 32 B-24s blast the railroad yards at
Tsanghsien and Tehsien; 10 B-24s and 4 P-40s attack Siangtan and nearby targets
of opportunity; 60+ fighter-bombers hit river, road, and railroad targets,
gun positions, warehouses, airstrips, and troops around Sinyang, Yiyang, Changsha,
Kiyang, Yoyang, Hengyang, Hankow and Wuchang.
HQ AAF (Twentieth Air Force): Mission 43: 24 of 29 B-29s bomb the Kuala Lumpur train station and marshalling yard One
B-29 drops over half of its bombs at Alor Star Airfield and another attacks
a freighter in the channel leading to Port Swettenham. One B-29 accidentally bombs the Royal Selangor Museum next to the train station killing civilians. Three others attack Khao
Huakhang, Thailand. Afterwards, the Japanese use this accidental bombing of civilians as propaganda in the Penang Shimbun newspaper.
INDIA-BURMA THEATER (Tenth Air Force): 13 P-47s support forces of the British 36 Division in the Mogok area; 46 P-47s and P-38s sweep the roads S of the bomb line; 49 others hit supply areas behind the enemy lines, attack
a bivouac near Nam-yang, and bomb a truck park N of Mong Yai. 537 air supply sorties are flown to forward areas.
AAFPOA (Seventh Air Force): 10 B-24s from Guam hit Susaki Airfield which 9 B-24s again hit during the night of 10/11 Mar on separate snooper strikes. Twenty-three B-24s from Angaur Airfield bomb Calarian Airfield.
HQ AAF (Twentieth Air Force): Mission 40: During the predawn hours, 279 B-29s, of 325 airborne, bomb Tokyo urban area with incendiaries, destroying 267,171 buildings, about one-fourth in the city, killing 83,793 and wounding 40,918 people and destroying 15.8 square miles; this death total is the highest of any single day's action during the war, exceeding the deaths caused by the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima; 20 other B-29s bomb alternates and targets of opportunity; 14 B-29s are lost; the participating B-29s are from the XXI Bomber Command's 73d, 313th, and 314th Bombardment Wings (Very Heavy) the raids are flown at levels ranging from 4,900' to 9,200' (1,494 to 2,804 m).
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AREA [SWPA, Far East Air Force (FEAF)]: B-24s and B-25s over the Zamboanga Peninsula area bomb Zamboanga Town, Calarian Airfield, Pangasahan, Port Holland, Kulibato Point, and Sibago. B-24s bomb the Ipo area and Aparri
Airfield; B-25s and A-20s support guerrillas near San
Fernando and bomb
Cabugao; fighter-bombers hit Caballo, bomb the town of Minanga,
hit enemy concentrations at Burgos, near Fort Stotsenburg, Batangag Province and at other locations and attack Teresa. B-24s bomb Kudat and Jesselton Airfields. Lost is C-46D 44-77341 (KIA).
USMC: Lost is F4U Corsair 57807 (KIA).
