This article focuses on the nighttime precision bombing campaign using a latest radar conducted by the United States Army Air Forces at the end of World War II. Previous studies have paid little attention to this campaign, which lasted from late June 1945 until the end of the war. This article shows that it has historical significance in that the mobilization of science, technology, and industry made possible certain tactics that were previously considered unfeasible. This campaign also suggests that the state of science, technology, and industrial policies determined the way the war was fought. This paper presents the future tasks whose completion is necessary to illuminate the overall picture of the campaign. First, it is necessary to clarify how the scientific, technological, and industrial bases that enabled these tactics were put in place and, second, to elucidate why oil-related facilities were selected as targets for nighttime precision bombing operations. By answering these questions, we will be able to offer a full perspective of nighttime precision bombing operations with the radar and, by extension, understand the characteristics of how the American military fought the war.
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