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>There's evidence that the US military used similar techniques in the Korean war. By our own army's admittance, we conducted similar bombing of basically every
by boomboomsubban 5y ago
>There's evidence that the US military used similar techniques in the Korean war.
By our own army's admittance, we conducted similar bombing of basically every North Korean city and town. We dropped 160,000 tons of bombs on Japan, 635,000 tons on North Korea.
- Ancapistani 5y agoTonnage doesn’t tell the whole story. While I’m unsure of the makeup of the bombs dropped on NK, a large part of the bombs dropped on Japan were incendiaries. Japanese construction was uniquely suited to the creation of “firestorms”, and the vast majority of the effect of US bombing Japan is WW2 was caused not by the bombs themselves, but through the fires set by them.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoWe dropped over 30,000 tons of napalm on North Korea as well. Our firebombing was more effective if anything, here's Air force General Curtis LeMay's words on our actions. >We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea, too."