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Raid on Taipei
| Taihoku Air Raid | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of World War II, Pacific theater | |||||||
 An aerial photograph by U.S. Air Force | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Japan |
 United States | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Virtually nonexistent | 117 B-24 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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Civilians killed: 3,000+ Wounded/Displaced: tens of thousands | None | ||||||
The Taihoku Air Raid[1] was the largest Allied air raid on the city of Taihoku (modern-day Taipei), then under Japanese colonial rule, during World War II. Many residents were killed in the raid and tens of thousands wounded or displaced.
- ^ (traditional Chinese and Japanese: 臺北大空襲; simplified Chinese: 台北大空袭; pinyin: Táiběi Dà Kōngxí; rōmaji: Taihoku Daikūshū; pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Tōa Khong-si̍p)
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