Target Tokyo (1945)
22m
Running Time
May 24, 1945Release Date
Target Tokyo (1945)
22m
Running Time
May 24, 1945Release Date
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Plot.
The story of the first bombing raid on Tokyo by B-29 Superfortress bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Crews are followed from their training staging at Grand Island, Nebraska to their bombing embarkation point on the island of Saipan. From there, the B-29 attack on the Nakajima aircraft plant outside Tokyo is depicted.
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Target Tokyo is a 22-minute film produced by the US Air Force and portraying the travels of an aircraft bomber and its crew from training in the U.S. and Saipan to the bombing of Tokyo. It was partially shot in Saipan, thus becoming the first example of a cinema of Northern Mariana Islands. Future U.S. president Ronald Reagan was the narrator. General Henry H. Arnold starred as himself.