Luftaufnahme der Bombardierung des japanischen Flugzeugwerks Okayama auf Formosa (Taiwan) durch B-29 Superfortresses des 58. Bombardierungsgeschwaders. 16. Oktober 1944 [1280 × 1253]

I always feel for the workers in those plants. A ton of them had nothing to do with the military any more than being pushed (or forced) to now make military products instead of some random civilian good. One minute you’re quietly tightening some screws on some random piece of an insignificant part of an airplane and the next minute you hear some terrifying booms followed by your world ceasing to be. In a way I’d rather there be no air raid sirens so you don’t have to have those minutes of total fear before you get killed.