Army Air Forces in World War II

Table 139 -- Number of Bombs Dropped in Theaters vs Japan, By Type of Bomb: 1943 to Aug 1945

Type of Bomb	Total	1943	1944	1945 (Jan-Aug)

High Explosive- Total	1,667,749	217,151	723,387	727,211
4,000 lb	1,220	-	-	1,220
2,000	16,387	346	2,256	13,785
1,000	188,198	24,735	75,226	88,237
550	204	-	204	-
500	605,552	70,260	252,540	782,752
300	750	62	-	688
280	8	-	8	-
250	273,169	39,400	104,151	129,618
220	123	123	-	-
200	24	24	-	-
180	11	11	-	-
132	8	-	8	-
110	70	70	-	-
100	581,977	82,072	288,994	210,911
90	48	48	-	-

Individual Fragmentation - Total	121,143	1,802	10,656	108,685
360 lb	30	-	-	30
260	120,119	1,100	10,384	108,637
192	336	336	-	-
150	3	-	3	-
125	4	-	4	-
100	92	2	70	20
90	165	-	165	-
30	394	364	30	-

Fragmentation Cluster - Total	388,662	43,404	132,519	207,739
540 lb	690	-	94	596
480-400	15,146	-	469	14,677
360	163	-	18	145
180	206	206	-	-
138	319	-	319	-
120	268,824	36,198	96,023	136,603
96	892	8	684	200
69 (Parachute)	102,422	11,992	34,912	55,518

Individual Incendiary - Total	893,917	2,564	34,755	856,598
500 lb	30,303	923	12,027	17,353
256 (Napalm)	16	-	-	16
250	16	16	-	-
174	16	-	16	-
162	8	-	8	-
140	4	4	-	-
125	1	-	1	-
100	862,650	1,061	22,539	839,050
100 (White Phosphorous)	903	560	164	179

Incendiary Cluster - Total	379,198	3,041	15,331	360,826
525 lb	6	-	-	6
512	4,590	-	4,155	435
500	144	-	144	-
440	93,417	-	1,130	92,287
360	4,469	-	1,554	2,915
338	9,516	-	-	9,516
250	35	35	-	-
228	255,073	-	3,180	251,893
200	193	193	-	-
180	36	-	36	-
136	6,914	2,745	3,728	441
112	62	8	54	-
100	68	60	8	-
84	4,675	-	1,342	3,333

Class C-Fire -Total	24,718	-	1,689	23,029
300 gal	4	-	-	4
165-150	14,886	-	748	14,138
110-100	1,295	-	135	1,160
75-70	6,041	-	776	5,265
50	1,710	-	30	1,680
30	782	-	-	782

Semi-Armor Piercing - Total	6,386	-	633	5,753
1,000 lb	6,308	-	633	5,675
500	78	-	-	78

Aerial Torpedo
2,000 lb	31	-	-	31

Spray
500 lb	35	-	35	-