The American firebombing campaigns over Japan caused massive damage and losses. Some of these attacks were as great or greater than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki w

The American firebombing campaigns over Japan caused massive damage and losses. Some of these attacks were as great or greater than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki with regards to damage and loss of life. Prime Minister Baron Kantarō Suzuki reported to U.S. military authorities it "seemed to me unavoidable that in the long run Japan would be almost destroyed by air attack so that merely on the basis of the B-29s alone I was convinced that Japan should sue for peace." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II#United_States_bombing_of_Japan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_...