Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Musi wa5 June 1944, ndege dzeB-29 dzakapinda muBangkok, mune zvinonzi kuedzwa dzisati dzaendeswa kuzvitsuwa zveJapan. Manyuko haatauri kuti vakatangira kupi uye vanosiyana-siyana maererano nenhamba dzinosanganisirwa <unk>77, 98, uye 114 dzinodaidzwa. Vavariro dzacho dzaiva Bridge reBangkok Memorial uye imwe nzvimbo huru inogadzira magetsi. Mabhomba akawira makiromita anopfuura maviri kure, haana kukuvadza zvivako zvevagari vemo, asi akaparadza mimwe migwagwa yetram, uye akaparadza zvose zviri zviviri chipatara chemauto echiJapan nomuzinda mukuru wamapurisa akavanzika echiJapan. Pana 15 June 1944, 68 B-29s akasimuka kubva zvigadziko akapoteredza Chengdu, 47 B-29s
rakaputira mabhomba paImperial Iron and Steel Works paYawata, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Uku kwakanga kuri kurwiswa kwokutanga pazvitsuwa zveJapan kubvira pakurwiswa kwakaitwa Doolittle muna April 1942. The wokutanga B-29 kurwa nokurasikirwa kwakaitika panguva raid ichi, mumwe B-29 kuparadzwa pasi ne Japanese varwi pashure kwokukurumidzira kumhara muna China, mumwe akarasika kuti anti-ndege moto pamusoro Yawata, uye mumwe, "Stockett kuti Rocket" (mushure Captain Marvin M. Stockett, Aircraft Commander) B-29-1-BW 42-6261, akanyangarika pashure yasimuka kubva Chakulia, India, pamusoro eHimalaya (12 vakaurayiwa, 11 vashandi uye mumwe mufambi). Kurwisa uku, uko kwakakonzera kukuvadzwa kudiki pachinangwa, bhomba rimwe chete rakarova chivakwa chemafekitori chakanangwa, zvakapotsa zvapera mafuta emafuta paChengdu B-29 zvigadziko, zvichikonzera kunonoka kwemabasa kusvikira mafuta emafuta azadzikiswa. Kutanga muna July, kudenha kwakarwisana neJapan kubva kunhandare dzendege dzeChina kwakapfuurira nesimba rakaderera zvikuru. Japan yakarwiswa: