Bombing of Rangoon in World War II

Bombing of Rangoon
	Part of Pacific War
	; Nakajima Ki-27 fighter aircraft shot down near Rangoon, 24 January 1942
Date	1941-1942
Location	Rangoon, British Burma
Belligerents
British Empire British India; British Burma;	Empire of Japan

Top: (left) Fraser Street, Rangoon, before the Japanese bombing (right) 39th Street, Rangoon: Poor citizens flee as Japanese planes approach December 1941; Bottom (left) 39th Street, Rangoon: After the Japanese bombing December 1941 (right) Fraser Street, Rangoon: A family killed, their house destroyed, in the Japanese bombing, December 1941

The bombing of Rangoon was a series of air raids conducted by the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service that took place between December 1941 to March 1942 during the Burma Campaign of World War II. The capital city of Rangoon was the first to be attacked after Japan executed air raids on Burma in preparation for its invasion of the country weeks following its declaration of war upon the United States and the United Kingdom on December 8, 1941.