 On the night of June 17, 1945 the 314th bombardment wing of the Army Air Corps (120 B-29s) dropped 809.6 tons of incendiary and cluster bombs destroying of Kagoshima (44.1 percent of the built-up area).Kagoshima was targeted because of its largely expanded naval port as well as its position as a railway terminus.A single B-29 was lost to unknown circumstances.