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sarisataka

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11. Operation Meeting House

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Thu Aug 6, 2015, 01:17 PM

Aug 2015

the night of 9-10 March, 1945 required three hours for ~300 B-29s to drop 2,000 tons of incendiaries. It destroyed 25% of Tokyo and killed upwards of 100,000.

Special Mission 13 targeted Hiroshima with 1 plane and 1 bomb. It destroyed 69% of the city and killed 70,000-80,000 in an instant.

Two versions of horror, but the second shows us the door to Armageddon.

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250,000 were killed by the US fire-bombing of Tokyo [View all] Recursion Aug 2015 OP

Don't be silly Schema Thing Aug 2015 #1

Sure they should, but as far as I can tell except for this post they aren't. Recursion Aug 2015 #3

... PoliticAverse Aug 2015 #2

Tokyo and Dresden would definitely both count as war crimes had we lost Recursion Aug 2015 #4

We don't spend much time talking about Stalingrad either. Liberal Veteran Aug 2015 #5

The dawn and, as yet, the sunset Recursion Aug 2015 #6

Or Moscow or Leningrad or Kursk or Bagration or Berlin. The Eastern Front would have been MillennialDem Aug 2015 #13

I have always seen it placed at edhopper Aug 2015 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author Recursion Aug 2015 #8

Sorry, misunderstood the post, let me try again Recursion Aug 2015 #9

Yes edhopper Aug 2015 #10

Operation Meeting House sarisataka Aug 2015 #11

Cold Harbor was deadlier for a generic infantryman than Verdun Recursion Aug 2015 #12

When war gets personal sarisataka Aug 2015 #14