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Author Hoyt, Edwin Palmer.

Title Inferno : the firebombing of Japan, March 9-August 15, 1945 / Edwin P. Hoyt.

Publication Info. Lanham, MD : Madison Books, 2000.

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 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  940.5425 HOYT    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 153 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-146).
Contents Introduction: B-25s to B-29s -- Firestorm -- To Burn Up Japan -- The Long Day -- Agony -- Imperial Tour -- Ready for Round Two -- Nagoya -- Searching -- Treating the Wounded -- Propaganda and Facts -- The First Osaka Fire Raid -- Kobe -- Return to Nagoya -- Tokyo's Troubles -- The Road to Hiroshima -- Adventures of a Soldier -- Kawasaki, Yokohama, and Smaller Cities -- Hiroshima Horror -- Nagasaki Nightmare -- To Shorten the War -- Shock -- Japan Burned Up.
Summary "Targeting Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe, as well as smaller Japanese cities, Major General Curtis LeMay (1906-1990) and his squadrons of B-29 bombers - flying low and carrying nothing but incendiary explosives - unleashed an almost nightly bombing campaign througout the spring and summer of 1945 that reduced the residential and commercial centers of the nation to rubble and charcoal. Fueled by high winds and napalm, these bombs proved frighteningly effective against the island's traditional wood and paper houses, killing 300,000 men, women, and children, and wounding 500,000 more.".
"During the first raid on Tokyo on March 9, 1945, the resulting firestorm burned nearly sixteen square miles of the city and sent its terrified residents running through the streets in search of shelter. The survivors overcame flames, panicked crowds, falling debris, and choking smoke. Many fled to the city's rivers, where they drowned. With penicillin in short supply, disease ran rampant. In all, 100,000 Japanese civilians perished.".
"Based on vivid interviews with dozens of survivors, Inferno is an unflinching, intimate account of those horrific events as they unfolded in the midnight hours of a desperate world war. It is also an indictment of the decisions and decision-makers who refocused strategy in the Pacific Theater from military targets to innocent civilians."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
Bombing, Aerial -- Japan.
Incendiary bombs -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Other Form: Online version: Hoyt, Edwin Palmer. Inferno. Lanham, MD : Madison Books, 2000 (OCoLC)606478232
ISBN 1568331495
9781568331492
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