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Monument on Miyagi mountain for B-29 crashes

SENDAI, Japan - The "Cenotaph of Fubo," built for 34 U.S. crew members who died in crashes of three B-29 bombers on the ridge of Mt. Fubo on March 10, 1945, the day of the so-called Great Tokyo Air Raids, is seen on Aug. 2, 2014, in Shiraishi, Miyagi Prefecture.

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Mt. Fubo in Miyagi Prefecture

SENDAI, Japan - People walk on a trail of Mt. Fubo in the Zao Mountain Range in Miyagi Prefecture on Aug. 2, 2014.

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Man shows photos of B-29s crashed in 1945

SENDAI, Japan - Hiroshi Kawamata speaks in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, on Aug. 3, 2014, about his experience with showing pictures of U.S. B-29 bombers taken four months after they crashed on the ridge of Mt. Fubo in Shiraishi, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 10, 1945, the day of the so-called Great Tokyo Air Raids. Residents in the city are planning to hold a memorial service for 34 crew members killed in the three B-29 crashes, in 2015, the 70th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War.