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		aidenn0 on June 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When pop history bombs: a response to Malcolm Glad... Plus the B-29 was previously bombing Japan from China, which was farther than the Marianas, right?

jkhdigital on June 17, 2021 [–]

Japan is a very long island chain; parts of it are quite close to China but Tokyo not so much.

aidenn0 on June 17, 2021 | [–]

I couldn't find a complete list of places the B-29 launched from, but Chengdu was mentioned in the Wikipedia article, and that's pretty far inland.

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