More than three hundred American bombers drop incendiary bombs on Tokyo during a three-hour raid A firestorm greater than that in Dresden erupts, killing 130,000 and displacing a million people. The raid was one of over a hundred such raids that eventually laid waste to sixty percent of the city's total area. More
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