Only a few months before (on May 31), 150 American bombers had attacked Taipei. The Governor-General's Office had burned all night, and the university had also been hit. Bombs had hit the main gate of the Liberal Arts Division and the University Hospital, and had broken the trees lining the university's famous Coconut Palm Boulevard.
由於在接收前數月的五月三十一日，台北城才遭到一百五十架次的美軍轟炸空襲，總督府燃燒了一整夜，學校也被波及，台大文政學部大門、台大附屬醫院都中彈，椰林大道的樹被炸彈切成一半，到處是炮彈碎片。