This is the story of Jirohatten, a young man with what seems to be Down Syndrome, living in a remote area during WWII Japan. When evacuee children came from Kobe to escape the bombing, he was a kind soul who helped both them and their teacher. Daily life during this time, including ...
The firebomb raids by American planes focused on Tokyo in the spring 1945. Most of the other cities in Japan were also attacked by firebomb raids. In 1945, the American offensive converged on Okinawa to invade the main islands of Japan. Although the Japanese fought back desperately by ...
and includes fascinating portraits of the men who invented and deployed them -Edward Teller, "the father of the hydrogen bomb", Robert Oppenheimer, head of atomic bomb design at Los Alamos; Curtis LeMay, who led the fire-bombing of Japan; Herman Kahn, nuclear strategist and a model for Stan...
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the firebombing of Japan's major cities in 1945; extensive use during the Korean War, and many other conflicts; and transformation in public opinion from a marvel to a monster so horrible Pentagon commanders won't mention it, and commentators routinely cite it as an icon of savage cruelty. ...
Hisako was a woman with no formal scientific training – also a survivor of the 1945 US air raid of Tokyo, the deadliest bombing in history – who managed to rise to the stature of Galileo. She did so by drawing the sun in painstaking detail every day for 40 years, a landmark ...
Americans applauded front page stories on the incineration of Tokyo and the firebombing of other Japanese cities. During the Korean war,The New York Timesand other newspapers printed hundreds of articles that mentioned napalm. Criticism, if it occurred at all, was fleeting. ...
exposing recent Soviet crimes and denouncing the Allied bombing of Dresden as an “atrocity.”8Like the leaflet displayed here, dropped on Allied soldiers in Italy in 1945, these materials played upon emotions and aimed to raise doubts in the minds of soldiers about the justness of their cause...
it is equally appropriate to weigh the atomic bombing of Japan against the planned invasion of Japan, known asOperation Downfall. It’s easy to Monday-morning quarterback the decision to drop the bomb, but to fully understand the “why” requires stepping into the shoes of the men making the...
systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of World War II. During the war, he was known for planning and executing a massive bombing campaign against cities in Japan and a crippling minelaying campaign in Japan’s internal waterways. After the war, he unintentionally initiated ...