Seventy-five years ago, before the atomic bombs, the U.S. targeted other Japanese cities with a firebombing campaign that killed about 180,000 people. More than 95% of the city of Toyama was incinerated.
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Elated with the results, LeMay thereafter sent squadrons to burn down Osaka, Nagoya and other large cities in quick succession. In just 10 days, the U.S. Army Air Forces reduced 32 square miles of urban fabric to ashes. To bring home the extent of the destruction, one postwar report by a government magazine included a U.S. map showing dozens of American cities with comparable populations, asking the reader to imagine the incineration of 96.5% of Chattanooga, Tenn.
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