As always, however, the appearance of enemy warplanes over Japanese soil stirred panic among the public. It seemed to matter little that the raid had done negligible damage. In the weeks that followed, the MATTERHORN B-29s hit enemy targets all around the periphery of the China theater: coke ovens in Manchuria and Korea, oil fields in the Dutch East Indies, steelworks and port facilities in northeast China, piers and depots in Shanghai, airbases on Formosa, shipping at Hong Kong, railroads and depots in Burma.
