This is NOT all the missions but simply some of the major missions in 1945 that were the most remembered by Allied POWs. Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima (05 Aug) and Nagasaki (09 August) are not shown. By mid-July, fighter planes roamed over all of Japan, almost unmolested as the Japanese hoarded over 2000 planes for Kamikazi attacks during the expected invasion. See also Locations where B-29s went down in Kyushu. Japanese website for full list: Report on Downed Allied Aircraft in Mainland Japan."

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Date	Target	Number of Planes over target/Lost
04 Mar	Musashino Aircraft factory, Tokyo plus one alternate target [Last daylight raid]	159/1
10 Mar	Tokyo	279/14
11-12 Mar	Nagoya [6 hit secondary target]	285/1
13-14 Mar	Osaka [5 hit secondary target]	274/2
16-17 MAR	Kobe [3 hit secondary target]	307/3
18-19 Mar	Nagoya	290/1
24-25 Mar	Nagoya- Mitsubishi aircraft plant	223/5
27-28 Mar	Omura- Oita & Tachiari Airbase, Kyushu	151/0
27-28 Mar	Shimonoseki Strait - mines	92/3
30 Mar	Nagoya- Mitsubishi plant	12/0
30 Mar	Shimonoseki Strait - mines	85/1
31 Mar	Omura Airfield- preparation for Okinawa invasion	137/1
19 May	Hamamatsu	272/4
23-24 May	Tokyo	520/17
25-26 May	Tokyo [largest single mission loss of planes]	464/26
26 May	Shimonoseki, Fukuoka, Fushiki & Karatsu	29/0
27 May	Shimonoseki, Moji	9/1
01 June	Osaka [148 P-51 escorts, 27 lost to weather]	458/10
05 June	Kobe + other nearby targets	473/11
07 June	Osaka [138 P-51 escorts, one lost]	409/2
11 June	Shimonoseki & Tsuruga - mines	26/0
15-16 June	Shimonoseki, Fukuoka, Fushiki & Karatsu -mines	30/0
22 June	Himeji	52/0
26 June	Osaka + target on Kyushu [one P-51 lost]	510/1
3-4 July	Takamatsu	116/2
3-4 July	Himeji	106/0
12 July	Tsuruga	92/0
19-20 July	Fukui	127/0
24 July	Osaka - 2 separate raids	82/1 & 158/0

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