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Bombing of Rangoon | |||||
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![]() Nakajima Ki-27 fighter aircraft shot down near Rangoon, 24 January 1942 | |||||
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The bombing of Rangoon was a series of air raids conducted by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service that took place between December 1941 to March 1942 during the Burma Campaign of World War II. The capital city of Rangoon was the first to be attacked after Japan executed air raids on Burma in preparation for its invasion of the country weeks following its declaration of war upon the United States and the United Kingdom on December 8, 1941.