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2. Women and children, mostly. Suffocated as much as burned/

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 10, 2023, 02:16 AM

Mar 2023

The men were away fighting. Bomblets of flaming jelly landing on rooftops, massive fire. The fireball sucked all the air up into the sky.

I had the privilege of knowing someone who was a child on the ground that night, watching the massive fire from some miles away. I am grateful he did not live in that huge working class neighborhood or I might not ever have known him.

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On the night of March 9-10, 1945, the American Army Air Force firebombed Tokyo. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2023 OP

My dad was a b29 bombadier jpak Mar 2023 #1

Women and children, mostly. Suffocated as much as burned/ lostnfound Mar 2023 #2