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Sunday, March 9, 2025

Bomber LeMay and the Destruction of Tokyo

Bell-Marietta Georgia, B-29 Assembly Line – 1944

Bomber LeMay strikes again. 80 years ago today, the United States Army Air Forces firebombed Tokyo.

Tokyo Inferno: Operation Meetinghouse, The Deadliest Air Raid In History, Part 1 by  Brad Schaeffer

The bombers headed for Japan in three parallel streams stretching 400 miles across the darkening Pacific sky.

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Tokyo Inferno: Operation Meetinghouse, The Deadliest Air Raid In History, Part 2 by Brad Schaeffer

In a single raid, the B-29 was vindicated and the entire trajectory of the war had been altered.

Tokyo Inferno: Operation Meetinghouse, The Deadliest Air Raid In History, Part 3 by Brad Schaeffer

 "The thing that brought about the determination to make peace was the prolonged bombing by the B-29.”

 

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