World War II Kumagaya firebombing survivor Kazue Hojo, 87, and Shoichi Yoshida, administrator for a local civic group devoted to preserving the history of the bombing, locate her house on a map of ...

World War II began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and secret protocols to it between the Soviet Union and the Third ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.