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This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelor.

James Scott is new book as Black Snow, Curtis Lemay, the fire bombing of Tokyo and the road to the atomic bomb.

It is early March 1945.

Curtis Lemay, commanding a bomber command out of the Mariana Islands, has a new idea about how to advance his campaign against the Tokyo Warmaking and bring the war to a close.

James, thank you. We go to the briefing of the day is March 9th.

But you tell me in your in your reporting that the word was out beforehand. How so? What kind of word to the crews of the B-29s?

Lemay in early March, they posted a message saying they're not going to be any more raids for several nights.

Of course, the airmen who are used to flying these sort of patterns are very aware that that that signifies a change is coming.

And so the rumor mill just starts burning at that point. And then of course, Lemay before the crews get brief, he then has to bring in all his wing commanders and sell them and tell them exactly what's going to be going down because they're going to have to then run these briefings for all these thousands of pilots,

bombers and navigators for what amounts to a very radical new way of attacking the Japanese.

The plan is extremely detailed. However, it involves elements that are surprising when you first read them.

For example, we've talked about low-level bombing, taking a bomber that was designed to fly with pressurized cabin six or seven miles above and do strategic bombing.

He's taking it down to 5,000 feet, but no weapons, James.

Exactly. Well, you know, Lemay wears the bombers all stripped of their guns. And if they don't take guns and they don't need to take ammunition and they don't even need to take gunners and all of that frees up more weight for bombing,

Lemay's rationed out for that as in part because he's going to be sending these planes in not in a formation, but singly.

And they're going to be going in at night and he was quite frankly worried that these guys might shoot each other down in the dark sky as they were dope you.

So it was a safety thing for the crews, but in the end, it also had the added effect of a bonus of allowing them to carry more bombs.

The remarks are immediate. The one remark that says everything is suicide. Is that the opinion of the wing commanders?

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