United States
Strategic Bombing Survey
Summary Report
(Pacific War)
WASHINGTON, D.C.
 1 JULY 1946

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Summary Report
  • Japan's Original Strategic Plan
  • Execution of the Japanese Plan
  • Japanese Overextension
  • The United States Plan Before Pearl Harbor
  • Turning the Tide
  • Factors Determining the Nature of the Succeeding Campaign
  • The Advance Across the Pacific
  • China-Burma-India
  • Elimination of Japanese Conventional Air Power
  • Conversion of Japanese Air Forces to Kamikaze Forces
  • Destruction of the Japanese Fleet
  • Destruction of the Japanese Merchant Fleet
  • Destruction or Isolation of Japanese Ground Forces
  • The Japanese Economy Prior to Sustained Direct Air Attack
  • The Air Attack Against the Japanese Home Islands
  • Economic Effects of Air Attack Against the Japanese Home Islands
  • The Health and Morale of the Japanese Civilian Population Under Assault
  • The Effects of the Atomic Bombs
  • Japan's Struggle to End the War
  • Conclusion
    • Uniqueness of Pacific War
    • Signposts
    • Hindsight
    • The Impact of Atomic Bombs on the Role of Air Power
    • Recommendations