That night, between midnight and five in the morning, the flying fortresses of the United States Army Air Force poured out on the working-class districts of the Japanese capital ten times more bombs than the Luftwaffe during the London Fire in 1940. The destroyed area will be more important. Zone bombings, primarily targeting civilians, will become the post-war standard in Korea, Vietnam and decolonization conflicts.
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Tokyo’s bombing of March 10, 1945: the forgotten apocalypse
