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To: Palio di Siena

The bombing of Japan is an interesting topic and I think very
few people realize that over 50% of over 100 large cities
were destroy by fire-bombing. (Those stats are presented to
peak interest, and I don’t want folks to take them as gospel.
These are not misleading numbers, but the real numbers are
somewhat different.) I think they were worse than stated here.

The interesting part is this didn’t cause Japan’s leadership
to sway away from their intent to fight to the last man.

Only Hiroshima and Nagasaki finally persuaded them that
they must stop the war, give up and sign an unconditional
surrender.

Here’s some interesting information on the topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan#Firebombing_attacks


85 posted on 10/13/2022 10:27:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: DoughtyOne

We posted at almost the same time. See #86.


87 posted on 10/13/2022 10:37:12 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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