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And on that show, with James Scott the author of the new book Black Snow, Curtis Lemay,

the fire bombing of Tokyo and the road to the atomic bomb, Heywood Hansel is in place

the 20th Air Force consists of two bomber commands, the 20th and the 21st.

Their launching Thanksgiving, 1944 and early December to Christmas, 1944 are the early launching

of the B-29 strategic bombing, 25,000 feet pressurized cabin.

James, the puzzle here is that you introduce that it doesn't work for a very simple thing.

Weather, how so James?

Which Japan is an island nation out of the Pacific, it has notoriously cloudy, rainy weather.

And so if some months, and of course if you're doing daylight precision bombing, you need

to see in order to be able to put your bombs on target.

And in Japan and some months has as little as three days of clear weather and the ability

to predict those days is a near impossibility.

And so you've got this terrible weather for bombing.

And then on top of that, they discover that high up in the heavens ever Japan are these

crazy violent jet streams for winds blow as much as 230 miles per hour.

I mean, those are like the winds that batter Mount Everest.

And of course, the bad weather in the jet stream is just combined to completely wreck

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