Arson.......b/c many Japanese houses are made from paper and wood......................there is no fire dept. that can stop fires from spreading.........which Lemay knew.................Rob McNamera told him that was an awful thing to do..........Lemay's response was........"war is hell"............

March 9, 1945: Burning the Heart Out of the Enemy | WIRED

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Mar 9, 2011 - The Tokyo raid, codenamed Operation Meetinghouse, began an aerial ... Curtis LeMay, commander of the 21st Bomber Command, also argued that ... a lot of tightly packed, wooden structures that would burn easily when set alight. He was ... The firebombing campaign, coupled with the atomic bombings of ...

Tokyo firebombing and unfinished U.S. business | The Japan Times

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Feb 15, 2014 - The anniversary of the Tokyo firebombing provides an opportunity to do so. ... Curtis LeMay. ... Tokyo raid to coincide with windy weather, knowing the fires would spread more rapidly in the kindling of Tokyo's wooden housing.

Bombing of Tokyo - Wikipedia

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The Bombing of Tokyo (東京大空襲, Tōkyōdaikūshū) often refers to a series of firebombing air ... Almost 90% of the bombs dropped on the home islands of Japan were delivered ... Changing tactics to increase the damage, Curtis LeMay ordered the ... incendiary bombs to burn Japan's vulnerable wood-and-paper buildings.

‎Doolittle Raid · ‎B-29 raids · ‎Postwar Japanese politics · ‎Partial list of aerial ...

Firebombs Over Tokyo - The Atlantic

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Nothing remained of her house the next morning but some stones. ... Alongside the two atomic bombings, the firebombing of Tokyo remains obscure. ... a hell of a lot in bombing results," Major General Curtis LeMay groused on March 6. ... that windy night was to burn wooden Japanese dwellings with spectacular efficiency.