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'Tokyo was just one of more than 60 Japanese cities bombed in 1945 – almost every urban centre in the country. By the time the droning of bombers had stopped, up to half a million people were dead.
LeMay later reportedly mused to his bombing crews that had United States lost the war then they would have been tried as war criminals. Instead, he was promoted to Air Force Chief of Staff during the Vietnam War, where he drove similar tactics against the communist north.'
What “bomb back to the stone ages” means in Japan. on 11:56 - Apr 4 by WeWereZombies
Thanks, I didn't realise this:
'Tokyo was just one of more than 60 Japanese cities bombed in 1945 – almost every urban centre in the country. By the time the droning of bombers had stopped, up to half a million people were dead.
LeMay later reportedly mused to his bombing crews that had United States lost the war then they would have been tried as war criminals. Instead, he was promoted to Air Force Chief of Staff during the Vietnam War, where he drove similar tactics against the communist north.'
LeMay came out with the classic if everyone in the world was dead apart from one American, they’d have won.
Technically correct I suppose, but about as nutty as you can get.
The burning down of Japan is interesting in that Hiroshima and Nagasaki get the attention yet being roasted alive in places like Tokyo was hardly an upgrade. Horrific really.
Sadly, in the context of the time, there appeared little alternative, any more than there was for Bomber Command and US 8th Air Force 1941-1945 (certainly up to June 1944 DDay anyway).
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What “bomb back to the stone ages” means in Japan. on 12:07 - Apr 4 with 302 views
What “bomb back to the stone ages” means in Japan. on 11:56 - Apr 4 by WeWereZombies
Thanks, I didn't realise this:
'Tokyo was just one of more than 60 Japanese cities bombed in 1945 – almost every urban centre in the country. By the time the droning of bombers had stopped, up to half a million people were dead.
LeMay later reportedly mused to his bombing crews that had United States lost the war then they would have been tried as war criminals. Instead, he was promoted to Air Force Chief of Staff during the Vietnam War, where he drove similar tactics against the communist north.'
Yep, or genocide by any other name. The atomic bombs steal the headlines, but the American air bombing campaign over Japan and Tokyo specifically is the most deadly in history, and particularly ugly given the use of petroleum in the bombs. And as the article says, it disproportionately killed women and children.
The brutality in WW2 was off the charts, and it’s disgusting to see (some) Americans again revelling in war and the killing of innocent civilians. Their administration is no better than the one they’re calling evil imo.
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