Author Topic: The Japanese Bombed Oregon.  (Read 3213 times)

Timothy

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Re: The Japanese Bombed Oregon.
« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2013, 05:17:37 PM »
The U.S. tried bat bombs but the bats went into hibernation when the plane got cold at altitude. It was a huge failure.

Yes, according to wikipoopia, a guy from PA came up with the idea because Japan's building materials were primary wood and paper.

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Re: The Japanese Bombed Oregon.
« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2013, 01:45:07 AM »
we killed way more people in japan with fire bombs then we did with nukes.  I forget the exact number, but it was between 5 and 10x.
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Re: The Japanese Bombed Oregon.
« Reply #12 on: August 08, 2013, 11:28:40 AM »
Curtis Lemay implemented the notion of low-level incendiary attacks on Japan, as Japanese industry was too distributed, almost cottage-level in some cases, to use strategic high-level bombing, which had proven to be quite problematic anyhow in Japan since the winds tended to disrupt the bombing patterns rather seriously.

He tested his idea on Chung-do in western China, one of Japan's major outposts. It worked well. TAB is right, something like 350,000 people were killed in a single incendiary raid on Tokyo, whereas the atomic bombs were like 75,000 - 115,000 direct casualties.

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Re: The Japanese Bombed Oregon.
« Reply #13 on: August 08, 2013, 01:48:59 PM »
Total casualties from both A bombs were around  250,000.
As Path points out many incendiary raids killed that many or more.

 

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