Marking 80 years since the Tokyo air raids of World War II claimed approximately 100,000 lives, people gathered from the ...

The crew’s Boeing B-29 Superfortress was part of a U.S. air ... Two of the crew members died in the crash. The remaining members managed to escape from the plane and parachute to the ground.

Some of their circumstances were strikingly similar to the story of the downed B-29. According to a historical account published by the Chiba prefectural government, a U.S. plane crashed in June ...

The B-29 went down at around 2 a.m. on March 10 ... neighboring town of Yatabe (now Tsukuba), roughly 3 km from the crash site. On the reverse side of a stone monument, the names of United ...