There's an interactive map at the Tokyo-Edo museum (great museum; highly worth your time if you're there) that shows the progression of the bombing campaign ove

There's an interactive map at the Tokyo-Edo museum (great museum; highly worth your time if you're there) that shows the progression of the bombing campaign over time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_biWi-lXTM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_biWi-lXTM The scale of that is mind-boggling. I had no idea, the first time I saw it, the amount of destruction involved. It rivals Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but we (in the US) almost never hear about it. To put a more human face on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo#mediaviewer/File:Tokyo_kushu_1945-3.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo#mediaviewer/Fi...