March 9, 2015 – “Deadly wartime firebombings of Tokyo and other Japanese cities largely ignored” (Asahi)

“On March 10, 1945, U.S. B-29 bombers flew over Tokyo in the dead of night, dumping massive payloads of cluster bombs equipped with a then-recent invention: napalm. A fifth of Tokyo was left a smoldering expanse of charred bodies and rubble.”