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That target selection committee didn’t mince its words. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb525-The-Atomic-Bomb-and-the-End-of-World-War-II/documents/009.pd
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That target selection committee didn’t mince its words. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb525-The-Atomic-Bomb-and-the-End-of-World-War-II/documents/009.pdf https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb525-The-Atomic-Bomb-...:
It should be remembered that in our selection of any target, the 20th Air Force is operating primarily to laying waste all the main Japanese cities […] Their existing procedure has been to bomb the hell out of Tokyo […] The 20th Air Force is systematically bombing out the following cities with the prime purpose in mind of not leaving one stone lying on another: Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe, Yawata and Nagasaki.
Colonel Fisher also advised that the 20th Air Force existing operational plans pointed toward dropping 100,000 tons of bomb per month by the end of 1945.