The Sincerest Form of.....

According to the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey Summary Report from 1946, the firebombing of Tokyo on the nights of March 9th and March 10th, 1945 (again, when the result of the war was no longer in serious doubt) resulted in the deaths of more than 85,000 Japanese civilians. This is more than occurred at Hamburg, Dresden (though the actual death tally here may never be known due to the high number of refugees), Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, and I am still trying to wrap my mind around it.................................................................................P.S. The way that this level of carnage was achieved was two-fold; a) the fact that nearly 1,700 tons of incendiary bombs were dropped and b) the fact that LeMay and his fellow madmen specifically targeted only the most densely populated areas of the city....They imitated the British, in other words.