Business Insider: The US destroyed Tokyo 73 years ago in the deadliest air raid in history
* 73 years ago today, the US destroyed Tokyo during the deadliest air raid in history, known as Operation Meetinghouse.
* 300 B-29 Superfortress dropped several types of incendiaries, killing an estimated 88,000 to 200,000 people.
* But US history classes almost never mention it.
01:00 Hrs Local, Tokyo, Japan. March 9-10, 1945.
All of Tokyo is a funeral pyre.
Burning at over 1,100° Fahrenheit, rising flames create their own hurricane vacuum that inhales everything combustible to fuel the growing, miles-wide conflagration.
Fluttering to the ground in a wobbly topple incendiary bomblets continue to rain down from the night sky. These are not normal aerial bombs. The tiny bomblets are soft blobs of gooey, formless terror. They are E-46 chemical incendiary bombs or "fire bombs".
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WNU Editor: For more information on Operation Meeting House, you can go here .... Bombing of Tokyo (Wikipedia), or here .... The Deadliest Air Raid in History (Air & Space Museum).
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