''Black Snow' tells us with great insight and detail what went into America’s thinking more than 75 years ago when it decided to target Japan’s citizens in World War II,' writes Nicolaus Mills.
has again become a major issue for Americans. Over the last six months, hardly a day has gone by without nightly television offering up horrifying pictures of Russian missiles and artillery striking Ukrainian citizens in their workplaces and their homes.tells us with great insight and detail what went into America’s thinking more than 75 years ago when it decided to target Japan’s citizens in World War II.
For Hap Arnold, the Army Air Force commander, who had pushed the government to invest billions in the massive B-29 bomber, which would lead the attack on Japan, Hansell’s meager results were unacceptable. Arnold was not prepared to give Hansell more leeway, especially when in its first year of production it took 30,000 hours to turn out a single B-29. Arnold quickly replaced Hansell with General LeMay, who on January 9, 1945 arrived on Guam to begin a new era in the Pacific air war.
The ruins of Tokyo after the Allied bombing during the nights of the 9th and 10th March 1945. During the raids 279 aircraft launched 1665 tonnes of incendiary projectiles at the city.LeMay’s chance to put his tactics together on a grand scale came on the night of March 9-10, 1945, in an attack on Tokyo. The results were a vindication for LeMay. The raid incinerated 15.8 square miles of Tokyo. One out of every four buildings in Tokyo vanished, and the human toll was higher.
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