76 years ago, on the midnight of December 20, 1942, the then city of Calcutta (now Kolkata) jolted by the sounds of bomb blasts across the city as the World War II reached its peak.14-Feb-2019
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76 years ago, on the midnight of December 20, 1942, the then city of Calcutta (now Kolkata) jolted up by the sound of bomb blasts across the city as the World War II reached its peak. The Imperial Japanese Army Air Force (IJAAF) started bombing the city of joy for the first time that night. India was a de-facto ally of the British Empire back then.
As the doom of the World War engulfed the globe, Calcutta also got hit by the global war as the bombing from Japanese aircraft damaged the city’s infrastructure and livelihood
Back then, India was a major aerial and land supply route to China, for the Allied powers. They used to cross the Himalayas, in order to send supplies to China, in the war against Japan, as Burma, now Myanmar was then occupied by the Japanese.
As the Japanese invasion was expanding through Southeast Asia by defeating both Chinese and British troops, they decided to take over the city of Calcutta as it is located in the eastern region of the country. To fight back, the city was put under curfew – the streets, houses, shops everything used to be ‘blacked out’ after sundown to make it harder for the Japanese troops to hit their target.
The City of Joy was bombed for a number of days, starting from December 20, 1942. The air strikes were mostly conducted at night by the Japanese fighter aircraft, as the city boasted of a strong air defence system. The night sky of that city turned into a battleground over the next few days, as the skilled pilots of the British Air Force and the allied countries started attacking and destroying several Japanese fighter aircraft, to tone down the aggression.