The WWII Tokyo firebombing was the deadliest air raid in history, with a death toll exceeding those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Sat, 12/09/2023 - 08:47

Tokyo residents who lost their homes as a result of the U.S. bombings. — One million Japanese people lost their homes after the US bombing of Tokyo during World War II.
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On March 10, 1945, US Army Air Forces dropped nearly 1,700 tons of fire bombs on Tokyo.
The attack was an escalation of Allied air raids on Japan during World War II.
The attack killed up to 100,000 Japanese people and injured another million, most of them civilians.

In the opening scene of Hayao Miyazaki's latest semi-autobiographical film, "The Boy and the Heron," fighter planes drop bombs on Tokyo, setting the city ablaze.