 Nagoya Castle, which was being used as a military command post, was hit and mostly destroyed on May 14, 1945.Reconstruction of the main building was completed in 1959.Later in the same year on July 26th, 1945 the "Enola Gay" also dropped a conventional pumpkin bomb in the Yagoto area of Nagoya as part of a bombing raid in order to train for their mission to Hiroshima.