High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bombing of Yawata on the night of 15/16 June 1944 was the first air raid on the Japanese home islands conducted by United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) land-based aircraft during World War II. The raid was undertaken by 75 B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers staging from bases in China. Only 47 of these aircraft bombed the raid's primary target, the Imperial Iron and Steel Works at Yawata, and little damage was caused. Five B-29s were lost due to accidents during the operation and two were destroyed by Japanese aircraft. While the raid did not achieve its aims, it had other effects. It raised Japanese civilians' awareness that their country was being defeated and received overly positive media coverage in the United States. Intelligence gathered by the B- 29s also revealed weaknesses in Japan's air defenses and the raid was the first of many on Japan. Yawata was attacked again by B-29s operating from China on 20 August 1944 and much of the city was destroyed in a fire bombing raid conducted by B-29s based in the Mariana Islands on 8 August 1945.

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