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To: lbryce

32,000 tons of incendiaries.

Tokyo - one night - 200+ bombers X 10 tons = 2000 tons. There were 14 such raids, or 28,000 tons of incendiaries, mostly napalm, dropped on Tokyo alone. 67 Japanese cities were burned this way.

Let’s not count the power of Fat Man and Little Boy...

I find their numbers suspect.


32 posted on 08/04/2015 2:13:00 PM PDT by Ingtar (Capitulation is the enemy of Liberty, or so the recent past has shown.)
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To: Ingtar

Just the other day on the WWII+70 years thread they had a summary of the cities and destruction from the bombing (mostly firebombs). Most cities were over 50% destroyed. One was listed as 98.5% destroyed. I wonder how they figured that? (”Hey Frank - is that a shed and a barn still standing?”)

Of course today, if one bomb hits a “wedding party” there is a world-wide uproar.


42 posted on 08/04/2015 2:19:16 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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