What you’re about to witness is the deadliest night in japanese history. A night in which 100,000 people were killed in an act of aggression. Except this isn’t from the atomic bombs, this is from conventional bombers with a new weapon that will burn japan. Let’s rewind and go back to March 10th, 1945.


Why was it necessary to drop the nuclear bomb if LeMay was burning up Japan? And he went on from Tokyo to firebomb other cities. 58% of Yokohama. Yokohama is roughly the size of Cleveland. 58% of Cleveland destroyed. Tokyo is roughly the size of New York. 51% percent of New York destroyed. 99% of the equivalent of Chattanooga, which was Toyama. 40% of the equivalent of Los Angeles, which was Nagoya. This was all done before the dropping of the nuclear bomb, which by the way was dropped by LeMay’s command.
Proportionality should be a guideline in war. Killing 50% to 90% of the people of 67 Japanese cities and then bombing them with two nuclear bombs is not proportional, in the minds of some people, to the objectives we were trying to achieve.
I don’t fault Truman for dropping the nuclear bomb. The U.S.—Japanese War was one of the most brutal wars in all of human history: kamikaze pilots, suicide, unbelievable.
What one can criticize is that the human race prior to that time — and today — has not really grappled with what are, I’ll call it, “the rules of war.” Was there a rule then that said you shouldn’t bomb, shouldn’t kill, shouldn’t burn to death 100,000 civilians in one night?
LeMay said, “If we’d lost the war, we’d all have been prosecuted as war criminals.”

Timestamps
00:00 Introduction to the Bombing of Japan
01:45 Newsreel Target Tokyo Film
05:08 Purpose of the Bombing of Japan
06:40 From Precision Bombing to Napalm Bombing
07:57 The Night Tokyo Burned The Longest Night of WW2
11:07 Eyewitness Accounts on the Burning of Tokyo
16:54 Conclusion & Legacy of Bombing of Japan

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