In ‘Black Snow’ author examines how U.S. firebombing Japanese cities was prelude to atomic attacks

Written by on September 10, 2022

With that information in hand LeMay ultimately chose to shift tactics. In an interview the author explained to me how LeMay made that decision: “He has a perfect new weapon (napalm), he’s got a bomber that’s capable of reaching there (the B-29), and he has breakdowns of every Japanese city on where he should target. He just takes that information and runs with it. He did understand...that there were going to be significant human consequences.”

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