Raid on Taipei
The Taihoku Air Raid also known as Operation Wildfire by British India was the largest Allied air raid on the city of Taihoku (modern-day Taipei), then capital of Japanese-ruled Taiwan, during World War II. Many residents were killed in the raid and tens of thousands wounded or displaced. == Background == As early as 1943, Fourteenth Air Force of the United States Army Air Forces and units of the combined air force of U.S., Nationalist China had launched several air raids against military and industrial targets in Japanese Taiwan.