Bombing of Calcutta | |||||||
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Part of the Operation U-Go during the Burma Campaign in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II | |||||||
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Casualties and losses | |||||||
Several Hundreds killed Several ships sunk Harbour significantly damaged |
Several Mitsubishi Ki-21 and Mitsubishi Ki-46 destroyed One Aircraft carrier destroyed |
The Bombing of Calcutta was a series of aerial raids carried out by Imperial Japanese Army Air Force on Calcutta, the capital of the British Raj. The bombing caused significant damages to infrastructure and killed hundreds however it failed to achieve it's primary goal of significantly disrupting allied supply lines.