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	Bombing of Tokyo in World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The key development for the bombing of Japan was the B-29, which had an operational range of 1500 miles (2,400 km); almost 90% of the bombs dropped on the home islands of Japan were delivered by this type of bomber (147,000 short tons, 133,000 metric tons).
		In the context of total war, the large number of Japanese civilians killed by strategic bombing was seen as acceptable by the American administration.
		Tokyo was not considered as an official target for the first nuclear attacks, although Tokyo Bay was apparently examined as a target for a non-lethal demonstration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_in_World_War_II (1374 words)

	Bombing of Dresden in World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It been claimed that the bombing was at request of the Soviet Union to attack a German armoured division transit through the city.
		This led to the raid on Dresden and the erosion of one last moral restriction the bombing war: the term "evacuation from east" did not refer to retreating troops to the civilian refugees fleeing from the Soviet troops.
		The Dresden bombing is a strongly debated and the action is still widely perceived lacking military justification even within the context the controversial area-bombing policy pursued against Germany Britain's Bomber Command in 1942 -1945.
	www.freeglossary.com /Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II (1103 words)

	"The Fog of War" - Salon
		But it's the section on the fire-bombing of Tokyo during World War II that is the most provocative and provides an insight into the mindset of McNamara.
		There is, as Fussell recognized, a moral cushiness to the sensibility that deplores the Tokyo bombing (and also, of course, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs) that helped bring the war to a speedy conclusion, and would have accepted much higher casualties on both the American and Japanese sides in the planned land invasion of Japan.
		Similarly, his refusal to give his personal feelings about the war suggests, as his critics have said, a man divorced from the human consequences of his actions but also a recognition that he must be judged on his actions rather than his private feelings.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2003/12/19/fog_of_war/index1.html (1238 words)

	Firebombing
		Firebombing is a bombing technique designed to create a firestorm[?] in the target city.
		This technique makes use of incendiary bombs to start a massive fire, and can also include a preliminary bombing run designed to prepare the city for burning.
		This bombing technique was as effective as the atomic bombs used against Japanese cities at the end of WWII.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fi/Fire-bomb.html (89 words)

	Bombing of Tokyo in World War II
		As the war moved closer to the Japanese mainland the AAF was able to execute larger raids.
		The key development was of the B-29, with a operational range of 1500 miles almost 90% of the bombs dropped on the home islands of Japan were delivered by this type of bomber (147,000 tons).
		The first such raid on Tokyo was on the night of February 23-24 when 174 B-29s destroyed around one square mile of the city.
	www.japan-101.com /history/bombing_of_tokyo.htm (657 words)

	Museum Recalls US Firebombing of Tokyo Which Killed 100,000
		TOKYO - When hundreds of American B-29 bombers sent waves of fire racing through Tokyo 57 years ago today, Katsumoto Saotome ran for his life, stumbling over burned corpses.
		Now 69, Saotome recalled his narrow escape at the opening of a museum dedicated to the firestorm on March 10, 1945, which killed more than 100,000 civilians and razed nearly half of Tokyo in the final months of World War II.
		Among the survivors who gathered to remember yesterday was an American B-29 navigator who was in a prison camp near Tokyo's Imperial Palace when the bombs began to rain down.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines02/0310-01.htm (526 words)

	World War II
		World War II More than a half-century since it ended, World War II remains the most total conflict in the history of the world.
		The war generated atrocities that challenge the imagination, of which the systematic Nazi effort to exterminate the Jews of Europe is the most notorious.
		The literature on World War II is staggering.
	departments.kings.edu /history/stevens/ww2syll.html (986 words)

	Iraq War @ PriceOfFreedom.com (Price of Freedom) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Iraq War (2003-present) is an ongoing conflict encompassing the invasion, occupation, and reconstruction of Iraq by a U.S. led coalition.
		After the 1991 Gulf War, U.N. Resolutions were passed to impose sanctions on the Saddam regime until it was verified that their Weapons of Mass Destruction were destroyed.
		One hypothesis for these increased bombings is that the relevance of Saddam Hussein and his followers was diminishing in direct proportion to the influence of radical Islamists, both foreign and Iraqi.
	www.priceoffreedom.com (4848 words)

	Best of History Web Sites: World War II History (WWII) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Second World War is a Spartacus Educational website and enables one to research individual people and events of the war in detail.
		In Total War, eyewitnesses from Britain, Germany, Russia, Korea, Japan, and the United States tell the story of how millions of civilians participated and came to be legitimate targets in the Second World War.
		Maps of World War II Maps of World War II provides an overview of WWII through a collection of maps that present the battles and campaigns fought in the various theatres of war.
	www.besthistorysites.net /WWII.shtml (3882 words)

	Radisson Hotels & Resorts, Radisson Miyako Hotel Tokyo - Powered by 10Best.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Incongruously, Tokyo is simultaneously one of Japan’s most established cities and one of its newest, given its insatiable drive to reinvent and rebuild itself constantly.
		For 250 years, the region was stable under the reign of the shoguns, and the city flourished, reaching a population of one million by the mid-18th century.
		Western influences began to color the city, although growth was abruptly terminated by the bombing of Tokyo during World War II.
	www.radissondestinationguide.com /ypLocation.process/OID_EB39EA2D/OLID_3474 (456 words)

	world war II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lifeboat is set during World War II, and when a sea battle between Allies and Axis ships leaves only a few survivors, they all end up on one lifeboat.
		The rest of the boat, a mix of Brits and Americans, are torn, with several in favor of returning the atrocities visited upon their relatives and countrymen and the rest arguing for decent treatment of a prisoner of war.
		·Discuss the war in the Pacific: Hiroshima, Nagasaki; the decision to drop atomic bombs and the consequences.
	www.susq-town.org /gaffey/ww2.htm (403 words)

	EyeWitness To World War Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Hitler's interpreter describes the reaction of the Fuhrer and his henchmen to an ultimatum from Britain and the beginning of World War II.
		Prime Minister Chamberlain's radio announcement of war was made at 11:15 AM - the air raid sirens began wailing at 11:27.
		The first target was Tokyo and the results more devastating than the later atomic bomb attacks.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /w2frm.htm (638 words)

	Bombing of Tokyo in World War II - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bombing of Tokyo in World War II Join Now
		Bombing of Tokyo in World War II The U.S. bombing of Tokyo during World War II took place between 1942 and 1945.
		What was particularly horrifying was a lot of the women were wearing what were called 'air-raid turbins' around their heads and the heat would ignite those turbins like igniting a wick on a candle to start consuming the flame.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Bombing_of_Tokyo_in_World_War_II (1387 words)

	Koch On Film
		During World War II he served in Washington as a numbers man in the Department of Defense.
		The U.S. Air Force fire bombing of Tokyo in World War II killed 100,000 people in one night and destroyed 51 percent of the city which consisted of mostly wooden structures.
		After the war, a Vietnamese top commander convinced him that it was a civil war and should not have been viewed as part of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War with surrogate military episodes.
	www.thevillager.com /villager_40/kochonfilm.html (666 words)

	Sumida, Tokyo - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sumida is in the northeastern part of the mainland portion of Tokyo.
		NHK and other broadcasters have proposed a Sumida Tower which, if completed, would be the tallest freestanding tower in the world and the tallest man-made structure in Japan.
		Tokyo Irei-do (Tokyo Memorial Hall): a memorial to those unidentified people who died in the Great Kanto earthquake, the Bombing of Tokyo in World War II and other catastrophes
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Sumida,_Tokyo (393 words)

	Deification of Some Guy
		Nagasaki's bombing also involved one guy dropping a bomb, but the official total of 45,000 deaths ranks that bombadier's godlike power second to Ferebee's.
		What stuck in my mind was that the terrifying power of the atomic bomb, which took months of intense research and two billion dollars to create, was being funneled through one person.
		Certainly, he did something that was important not just in the history of World War II, but in the history of human achievement.
	www.prepx.com /one/ferebee.html (1095 words)

	'World War II
		By the end of the War, more people were killed, more property destroyed, more people's lives were disrupted, and probably more far-reaching consequences were caused than any other war in history.
		World War II brought about the downfall of Western Europe as the center of world power, led to the rise of the Soviet Union, set up conditions leading to the 'Cold War,' and opened the nuclear age.
		The objective of this lesson is for students to understand the impact of World War II on the advancement of women in society.
	www.42explore2.com /worldwar2.htm (2461 words)

	Category:World War II strategic bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pages in category "World War II strategic bombing"
		Categories: World War II Western European Theatre
		This page was last modified 11:36, 30 May 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:World_War_II_strategic_bombing (72 words)

	Metroblogging Tokyo: 60th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima
		At 8:15am on August 6, 1945, the United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, in western Japan, instantly killing tens of thousands of children, women, and men living there, and leaving tens of thousands more maimed and poisoned by radiation.
		If you take time to read it, you might also want to read the Bombing of Tokyo in World War II article, which details the bombing campaign against Tokyo during the war (part of a campaign that resulted in the some 500,000 people being killed throughout Japan, and another 8 million being left homeless).
		Written from the perspective of people who live, work, and play here every day, Tokyo is one of over forty five (and growing) blogs in the globe-spanning Metroblogging network.
	tokyo.metblogs.com /archives/2005/08/60th_anniversar.phtml (365 words)

	World War II - Wikimedia Commons
		en: World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives.
		World War II military officers, generals and other ranks of Army, Air Force and Navy.
		Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government during formal surrender ceremonies on the USS MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/World_War_II (753 words)

	Paste Magazine :: Review :: Fog of War :: Errol Morris on Robert McNamara (Page 1)
		The primary thrust of the movie is a series of interviews Morris did with McNamara beginning in May 2001 and continuing through the winter of 2002-03.
		My feelings about the war haven’t changed since I was a student demonstrator at the University of Wisconsin.
		The Fog of War is principally a movie about war, which is why McNamara’s 13-year reign as the president of the World Bank is unfortunately ignored.
	www.pastemagazine.com /action/article?article_id=444 (1062 words)

	Documents Related to World War II
		World War II in Ukraine, The Ukrainian Experience in World War II With a Brief Survey of Ukraine's Population Loss of 10 Million, by Andrew Gregorovich
		Telegran from Tokyo to the Japanese Embassy in Washington on the China Question in the Peace Negotiations, MAGIC, From: Tokyo To: Washington November 10, 1941 Purple (CA) (Urgent) #755.
		Telegram from Tokyo to the Japanese Embassy in Washington on the Firmness of the Deadline for Negotiations, MAGIC, From: Tokyo To: Washington 11 November 1941 (Purple-CA) #762
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/ww2.htm (12677 words)

	Paste Magazine :: Review :: The Fog of War :: Errol Morris on Robert McNamara (Page 1)
		But I’m not a knee-jerk contrarian, I’m a skeptic.” Morris was also interested in McNamara’s central role in many key events of the 20th century: the fire bombing of Tokyo during World War II, the rise of the Ford Motor Co. after the war, the Cuban Missile Crisis and, of course, the Vietnam War.
		If one mid-level State Dept. official hadn’t been in the room at a certain time, JFK might have heeded the bellicose advice of his generals and bombed Cuba, a move which would’ve certainly provoked an all-out nuclear war.
		He then describes the subsequent bombing of 66 other Japanese cities, ending with the admission that, if the U.S. had lost the war, he would almost certainly have been tried as a war criminal.
	www.pastemagazine.com /action/article?article_id=487 (708 words)

	Misa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Misa lost her entire family in a bombing raid on Tokyo during World War II.
		She became very depressed and had given up on life, settling down to die when a little boy came up to her and asked her to try a piece of meat.
		Because her name is giving only in the anime and not the manga, it is difficult to break down her name without the kanji.
	www.furinkan.com /mermaid/characters/misa.html (249 words)

	Richard Knobloch
		That April 18, 1942 mission used B-25B Mitchell aircraft and was the first bombing of Tokyo during World War II.
		After bombing the naval station the aircraft turned southwest for China.
		He served in various assignments both in the United States and around the world, his last as Commander of Andrews Air Force Base.
	www.aviationhalloffamewisconsin.com /inductees/knobloch.htm (265 words)

	Doolittle, James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Won the Congressional Medal of Honor for leading the first bombing attack on Tokyo during World War II.
		For Four Decades, World War II Hero James Doolittle Flew through the Air with the Greatest of Ease.
		Doolittle's Tokyo Raid won him the Medal of Honor.
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/great/doolit.htm (641 words)

	Artist : Jitr (Prakit) Buabusaya
		He not only took part in setting up the art curriculum for Rongrian Phaochang (The Arts and Crafts School), but he was also a pioneer Thai artist who executed his work in true French Impressionistic Style (1940s).
		At that time Japanese art was widely influenced by French Impressionism and that museums in Japan had a collection of French Impressionist paintings.
		It is very unfortunate that many of Jitr's paintings of Japanese sceneries were destroyed by the bombing of Tokyo during World War II.
	www.rama9art.org /jitr (180 words)

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