Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 10. Mars 1945 / Time Line March 10, 1945
Version 3.503/10/1945
USA begynder at bombe
civile byområder i Japan, herunder Tokio.
/ By The Numbers: The U.S. fire-bombing of Tokyo, March 9-10,
1945:
Airplanes: 334 B-29 "Superfortress" bombers.
Munitions: A half-million M-69 incendiary cylinders that released
100-foot streams of fire upon detonation. Sixteen square miles of
the city burned; asphalt boiled in the 1,800-degree heat.
Dead: An estimated 100,000, nearly all of them civilians. The
fire-bombing killed more people immediately than the atomic attacks
on Hiroshima or Nagasaki that preceded the end of World War II.
Robert MacNamara on the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo, which he helped
plan as a wartime assistant to Gen. Curtis LeMay:
'LeMay said if we'd lost the war, we'd all have been tried as war
criminals. And I think he is right. He, and I'd say I, were
behaving as war criminals. LeMay recognized that what he was doing
would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it
immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?'"
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