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US Firebombed Tokyo as Last Option: a response to David McNeill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

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[This is part of a continuing series of reports and assessment of the US firebombing of Japan from March through August, 1945.]

The air armada of B-29 planes, their silver skins gleaming under a Japanese moon, thundered over Tokyo on March 10th, 1945 to scorch that sleeping city and Japanese empire's headquarters.

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