Ep 214: Terror for Peace - The Firebombing of Tokyo

Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb - by James M. Scott - https://www.amazon.com/Black-Snow-Curtis-Firebombing-Atomic/dp/1324002999

The Brutal Bombing of Tokyo 1945 | The Deadliest Bombing in History - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-iS8ZQjr1c

Unauthorized History of the Pacific War Podcast - The Firebombing of Tokyo - Episode 416 -

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkWVi5s85lo

Today, let's talk about Operation Meetinghouse - the overnight firebombing of Tokyo on March 9-10, 1945. USAAF General Curtis LeMay orchestrated hundreds of B-29 Superfortress bombers to bring thousands of pounds of incendiary bombs to Tokyo. He knew that he was targeting civilians, but believed this campaign of "terror bombing" would push Japan to surrender. It didn't. You know it didn't.

The firebombing of Tokyo killed over 100,000 people, more people than the Atomic Bombs in their respective cities. Families burned to death in piles, people boiled to death in cisterns and rivers.

It's a harrowing, awful story. Taylor cries. War is stupid. 

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