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Omuta (130.44E
33.05N) is a port and rail
junction on Kyushu. The population
in 1944 was about 180,000. The city was a center of the Japanese
chemical industry, particularly synthetic oil,
explosives, and fertilizer, as
well as a coke manufacturing center. It was the most important coal port in Japan.
On 17-18 June 1945 the city was bombed by 58
Bombardment Wing, which dropped 770 tons of incendiaries. However,
the attack was mostly ineffective, destroying just 4.1 percent of its
urban area.
References
Frank (1999)
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