When Fire Rained From the Sky

The first low-level B-29 raid on Tokyo introduced a terrifying new tactic in the war against Japan On the night of March 9-10, 1945, U.S. Twentieth Air Force B-29s burned down 7 percent of Tokyo and killed some 85,000 people. Probably no one on Major General Curtis LeMay’s staff in the Mariana Islands expected the …

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