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This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Bachelor.

James Scott, his new book is 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 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. And of course, the airmen who are used to flying in these sort of patterns are very aware that that signifies a change is coming.

And so the rumor mill just starts burning at that point.

And then, of course, Lame, before the crews get brief, he then has to bring in all of 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, bombadiers, 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.

No.

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