[Northern Yankee]

Estimates of the number killed of the fire bombing of Tokyo range between 80,000 and 200,000, a higher death toll than that produced by the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima or Nagasaki six months later.

References: - Guillain, Robert, I Saw Tokyo Burning (1981); Werrell, Kenneth, Blankets of Fire: US. Bombers over Japan During World War II (1996).

Thought you'd like to know.

[Northern Yankee]

Thought you’d find interesting.

[Young Werther]

I was an Air Force ROTC student in 1964. We discussed the bombings in class and considered the data that President truman was confronted with.

Rape of Nanking with over 100,000 civilians massacred