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RAGE OF THE USAAF MARCH-AUGUST 1945: 4/8: Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb by James M. Scott

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🗓️ 16 October 2023

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RAGE OF THE USAAF MARCH-AUGUST 1945: 4/8: Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb by James M. Scott

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Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were killed.

1930 TOKYO

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Though they're losing, they're going to fight to the last.

1:02.7

They will not surrender.

1:04.4

What is to be done?

1:05.7

Lamei, I picture him lying in his quanson hunt, looking at the ceiling.

1:10.5

Do we know exactly what it was or is it him pondering Dresden and the news from Dresden?

1:17.8

Did that do it, James?

1:19.4

No, actually, Lamei, it probably begins even earlier than that because Lamei had looked

1:24.2

at the results of the July 1943 fire bomb at Hamburg, which was actually more

1:29.0

destructive than Dresden.

1:30.7

Everybody knows of Dresden today.

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