[dainbramaged]

On the night of 9–10 March 1945 ("Operation Meetinghouse"), 334 B-29s took off to raid with 279 of them dropping 1,665 tons of bombs on Tokyo. The bombs were mostly the 500-pound E-46 cluster bomb which released 38 napalm-carrying M-69 incendiary bomblets at an altitude of 2,000–2,500 ft . The M-69s punched through thin roofing material or landed on the ground; in either case they ignited 3–5 seconds later, throwing out a jet of flaming napalm globs.
My Dad's buddy from high school was a crewman on one of those planes, made it home safely and lived to age 90.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Curious that 55 of the B-29s didn’t drop any bombs. I wonder why. I read that 27 failed to return, but some of those probably dropped their bombs before being lost.