OPERATIONS in the PACIFIC OCEAN AREAS During the Month of AUGUST 1945, su ibiblio.org. URL consultato l'11 aprile 2011.During August. B-29s of the newly formed Strategic Air Force, commanded by General C. A. Spaatz, USA, and under operational control of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, operated on only seven days of the month before cessation of hostilities was announced. These seven days, however, overshadowed all other strategic air assaults on Japan;... On 1 August, the heaviest normal bombing raid of the war occurred when some 800 B-29s (774 effective) delivered a 6,632-ton raid on four Japanese cities on Honshu and on KAWASAKI petroleum processing plant.
