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Firebombing of Tokyo (1945)

9–10 Mar 1945 — A single night raid kills ~100,000 people. The moral cost of victory mounts.

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Site of memory
Chapter
End of WW2 in the Pacific (chapter 14 of WW2)
Atlas
The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945
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Map showing Firebombing of Tokyo (1945), site of memory in The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945
SITE OF MEMORY · THE WAR ROOM — WW2, 1936–1945

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