A TORRENT OF FIRE
Aug 06, 2020
3 minutes
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The Pathfinders arrived first, marking the target area with an immense ‘X’ etched in flame. Then 325 Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers came in waves, sowing death and destruction on a scale so massive that it seemed incomprehensible. For three hours during the execution of Operation Meetinghouse, on 9-10 March 1945, the US XXI Bomber Command rained 1,665 tons of M-47 incendiary clusters, napalm and other ordnance on the Japanese capital of Tokyo. Like other
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