Lyons Press Library of WWII : The Fire Bombing of Japan, March 9 - August 15, 1945 - Edwin P. Hoyt

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Lyons Press Library of WWII

The Fire Bombing of Japan, March 9 - August 15, 1945

By: Edwin P. Hoyt

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Hardcover | 11 October 2000

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Targeting Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe, as well as smaller Japanese cities, Major General Curtis LeMay (1906-1990) and his squadrons of B-29 bombers - flying low and carrying nothing but incendiary explosives - unleashed an almost nightly bombing campaign througout the spring and summer of 1945 that reduced the residential and commercial centers of the nation to rubble and charcoal. Fueled by high winds and napalm, these bombs proved frighteningly effective against the island's traditional wood and paper houses, killing 300,000 men, women, and children, and wounding 500,000 more.
During the first raid on Tokyo on March 9, 1945, the resulting firestorm burned nearly sixteen square miles of the city and sent its terrified residents running through the streets in search of shelter. The survivors overcame flames, panicked crowds, falling debris, and choking smoke. Many fled to the city's rivers, where they drowned. With penicillin in short supply, disease ran rampant. In all, 100,000 Japanese civilians perished.
Based on vivid interviews with dozens of survivors, Inferno is an unflinching, intimate account of those horrific events as they unfolded in the midnight hours of a desperate world war. It is also an indictment of the decisions and decision-makers who refocused strategy in the Pacific Theater from military targets to innocent civilians.

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Inferno takes a provocative and indeed controversial stand on the firebombing of Japan's cities... Fast-moving, dramatic, and exciting, Inferno is a must for all those interested in World War II in the Far East. -- Charles Whiting, Author of Hunters from the Sky: The German Parachute Corps, 1940-1945

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction: B-25s to B-29s	p. 1
Firestorm	p. 7
To Burn Up Japan	p. 37
The Long Day	p. 39
Agony	p. 49
Imperial Tour	p. 53
Ready for Round Two	p. 55
Nagoya	p. 57
Searching	p. 63
Treating the Wounded	p. 67
Propaganda and Facts	p. 71
The First Osaka Fire Raid	p. 75
Kobe	p. 85
Return to Nagoya	p. 91
Tokyo's Troubles	p. 95
The Road to Hiroshima	p. 101
Adventures of a Soldier	p. 107
Kawasaki, Yokohama, and Smaller Cities	p. 113
Hiroshima Horror	p. 119
Nagasaki Nightmare	p. 123
To Shorten the War	p. 129
Shock	p. 135
Japan Burned Up	p. 137
Afterword	p. 139
Notes	p. 141
Bibliography	p. 145
Index	p. 147
About the Author	p. 153
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