RAGE OF THE USAAF MARCH-AUGUST 1945: 6/8: 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.
1928 TOKYO
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| 0:58.1 | James gives us pictures of family sleeping five across five people on the second floor, |
| 1:04.7 | the first floor of their very modest paper, and would build homes all crowded together. |
| 1:11.4 | James, you introduce us to survivors who tell the story. |
| 1:15.3 | One particular survivor is compelling because she's looking forward to her sixth birthday. |
| 1:22.0 | Shazuko Nishio, when did she first learn that the bombers were something different? |
| 1:28.0 | We're not coming tonight, and then we're something different. |
| 1:31.2 | So yes, she goes to bed that night, and she's super excited. |
| 1:34.6 | Her father, she lives in the district that's being targeted. |
| 1:37.2 | Her father's a physician who treats a lot of the, |
| 1:39.9 | it's kind of a working class district, treats a lot of the folks there. |
| 1:44.1 | There's huge shortages in Japan at this point, because the American submarine effort has |
| 1:48.8 | really robbed the ability of Japan to import things, and so she's super excited for her birthday, |
| 1:53.8 | because her mother has been able to sort of cobble together enough stuff to make sort of a |
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