air war

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• SOURCE: Sydney Morning Herald
  7/9/2021
  

  Review: The Bomber Mafia

  by Paul Ham

  If Curtis LeMay's firebombing broke the will of the Japanese public, nobody remembered to tell the Japanese. Malcolm Gladwell's praise of LeMay suffers from overlooking the Japanese side of the bombing campaign.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/1/2020
  

  Opinion: 75 Years On, Remember Hiroshima And Nagasaki. But Remember Toyama Too

  by Cary Karacas and David Fedman

  AAF officials commonly used sanitizing language to mask the fact that they were targeting entire cities for destruction. Press releases described attacks not on cities, but on "industrial urban areas." Tactical reports set their sights not on densely populated neighborhoods, but on "worker housing."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/9/2020
  

  ‘We Hated What We Were Doing’: Veterans Recall Firebombing Japan

  American airmen who took part in the 1945 firebombing missions grapple with the particular horror they witnessed being inflicted on those below.