RAGE OF THE USAAF MARCH-AUGUST 1945: 5/8: 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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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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| 1:10.9 | We go to the briefing of the day is March 9th, |
| 1:14.9 | but you tell me in your reporting that the word was out beforehand. |
| 1:20.4 | How so, what kind of word to the crews of the B-29s? |
| 1:24.3 | Lamay, in early March, they posted a message saying they're not going to be any more raids for |
| 1:30.3 | several nights. Of course, the airmen who are used to flying and these patterns |
| 1:34.4 | are very aware that signifies a change in this coming. |
| 1:40.0 | And so the rumor mill just starts burning at that point. |
| 1:43.2 | And then, of course, Lamay, before the crews get brief, |
| 1:45.9 | he then has to bring in all of his wing commanders and sell them and tell them exactly |
| 1:50.2 | what's going to be going down because they're going to have to then run |
| 1:53.5 | these briefings for all these thousands of pilots, |
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