B-29s over Japan - 1945, Curtis Le May and Operation Meetinghouse
With Ian W. Toll
Part of Strategic Bombing week on WW2TV
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Ian W Toll joins us again, fresh from his Iwo Jima show on WW2TV [ Ссылка ]
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This time Ian will talk about the B-29 campaign from the Marianas against Tokyo through a series of firebombing air raids. Including Operation Meetinghouse, which was conducted on the night of 9–10 March 1945 - the single most destructive bombing raid in human history. In central Tokyo 16 square miles were destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and over one million homeless. He will go on to talk about General Curtis Le May and the 21st Bomber Command on Guam.

Here is a brilliant restored film from 1945 about Le May's campaign against Japan
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Twilight of the Gods - War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll
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