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by vidarh
3645 days ago
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The ongoing firebombing campaign against Japanese cities also killed more. The bombing raids against Tokyo alone almost certainly killed far more than Hiroshima throughout the war. And it included the most destructive single bombing raid of the entire war. Operation Meetinghouse [1] burned a quarter of Tokyo to the ground in a single night, and may have killed as many as 100,000 - more than is believed to have died in the immediate aftermath of Hiroshima (though possibly fewer than the total Hiroshima death toll, depending on which estimates are right). [1] http://www.wired.com/2011/03/0309incendiary-bombs-kill-10000... |
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