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by codechad 1580 days ago
My grandfather flew a B-29 in the March 10 raid. His war journal noted that even with his mask on (oxygen/air-filtration), he could still smell the burning flesh from the destruction that had been unleashed from bombers sequenced ahead of his group.

Operation Meetinghouse[1] is/was the single most destructive bombing raid in human history. I really hope that record is never broken.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_194...