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> As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 ton
by lmilcin 5y ago
> As many as 100,000 Japanese people were killed and another million injured, most of them civilians, when more than 300 American B-29 bombers dropped 1,500 tons of firebombs on the Japanese capital that night.
Most bomb raids during WWII did absolutely nothing. Only very rarely a bomb strikes a target and does any damage.
Here you have an average of over 300 kills per aircraft and 60 per bomb. Absolutely mind blowing.