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Second Sino-Japanese War - Japanese raiders hit Chongqing

Time: Friday Feb 18, 1938

Place: Chongqing, China

Details: With Japanese casualties and costs mounting, the Imperial General Headquarters attempted to break Chinese resistance by ordering the air branches of their navy and army to launch the war's first massive air raids on civilian targets. Japanese raiders hit the Kuomintang's newly established provisional capital of Chongqing and most other major cities in unoccupied China, leaving millions dead, injured, and homeless.

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