09-13-2012, 03:29 PM
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Always smells like diesel
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Magdalena, NM
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Originally Posted by Air&Road
 Yeah, that's the way I look at it. If we had lost, I assume he was talking about Enola Gay's mission would have made him a war criminal. Of course the firebombing of Japan probably was worse and he gave the order for those missions and much more. |
LeMay was talking about the firebombing of Tokyo, which was much more destructive than the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Modern estimates are that the firebombing of Tokyo resulted in the death of 500,000 Japanese civilians and the displacement of five million (Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted in, high-estimate, 240,000 immediate deaths).
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LeMay commanded subsequent B-29 Superfortress combat operations against Japan, including massive incendiary attacks on 64 Japanese cities. This included the fire-bombing of Tokyo on March 9–10, 1945, the most destructive bombing raid of the war.[8] For this first attack, LeMay ordered the defensive guns removed from 325 B-29s, loaded each plane with Model E-46 incendiary clusters, magnesium bombs, white phosphorus bombs, and napalm, and ordered the bombers to fly in streams at 5,000 to 9,000 feet over Tokyo.
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