Strategic Bombing Survey: Osaka
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This is one part of a section on the bombing of Osake, Kobe and Kyoto and what the effects were. The section has a lot of photos and I'll cover those first, and then the parts that I think are the most important text sections.
Osaka Region.
Bombing routes.
Kyoto and Osaka.
Pre-bombing.
Layout of Osaka.
Firebreak.
The population of the city fell.
The population density.
Fire damage.
Lots of raids in June.
Damage map.
After an incendiary attack.
Osaka waterfront.
Aerial shot of damage.
Ruins of one district.
More ruins.
March casualties highest.
Air raid warnings.
More damage.
Power consumption fell almost to zero.
More damage.
Electric power consumption fell almost to zero.
Gas consumption fell almost to zero.
Gas production fell almost to zero.
More damage.
Still more damage.
Canals.
More damage.
Shipborne freight fell almost to zero.
Freight fell likewise.
So did rail traffic.
So did coal traffic.
So did coal transport.
So did coal deliveries.
So did iron and steel movement.
Mass destruction.
More damage.
More damage.
More damage.
There was still some labor workers left.
More damage.
Shipbuilding fell sharply.
Machinery production did the same.
Railway equipment production did the same.
What is the result of all these charts? It's obvious that Osaka was severely damaged by the air attacks, so much so that their industrial base almost disappeared.
Osaka's production was shifting at the time of the bombing.
The aerial attacks did major damage and caused confusion.
Where the Osaka region is.
Osaka was a valuable area for production of war-relation things.
They produced 25% of the aircraft.
Shipbuilding was also a major industry there.
The targets.
Areas hit at a certain time.
32 square miles of war industry was destroyed.
Then they got hit with incendiary attacks.
75% of the attacks on the Osaka area were on urban targets.
76 square miles of urban areas were burned.
Precision air attacks against aircraft production centers worked well.
The refineries were attacked.
The mining effort had an immediate effect.
Osaka was next to Tokyo as an industrial and commercial center.
Plants were damaged and destroyed, but workers attendance still did not fall terribly at this point.
The June attacks on Osaka.
More factories destroyed in June attacks.
25% of the industrial floorspace was destroyed or damaged.
The effects of the air attacks on Osaka and Kobe.
Other problems the area had.
There was no recovery in industrial areas.
Public discipline went down.
The firebreak defense system failed.
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