QuickCheck: Did the Americans bomb Kuala Lumpur during WW2?


Over the years, one often-repeated statement published online, in books and repeated in oral histories of World War 2 is that the Allied powers – specifically the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) – bombed Kuala Lumpur in what was then Japanese-occupied Malaya.

Is this true, or are people remembering things wrongly?

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