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I Saw Tokyo Burning
Author | : Robert Guillain |
Publsiher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Japan |
ISBN | : UOM:39015002302381 |
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I Saw Tokyo Burn
Author | : Philip K. Kurokawa |
Publsiher | : Publish America |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-05 |
Genre | : Japanese Americans |
ISBN | : 1424148308 |
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My father met his future wife Anna Laura Cluck, at a Ladies Club meeting, in the church she was attending. He was attending Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and asked her to come to Honolulu after her graduation in 1925 from then Shippensburg State Teachers College in Shippensburg, PA. I had an older brother (deceased in September 1972). The family was sent to Kyoto to show the citizens there that such a unique couple could live in harmony. They were given teaching positions at Doshisha University in Kyoto, until the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Philipas father then obtained a translation job with a medicinal tea factory in Tokyo, where they lived until the bombings started.
I Saw Tokyo Burning
Author | : Robert Guillain |
Publsiher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105081187770 |
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Black Snow Curtis LeMay the Firebombing of Tokyo and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
Author | : James M. Scott |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2022-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781324003007 |
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"Riveting.…This book is required reading for anyone with even a passing interest in World War II and the Pacific Theater." —Bob Carden, Boston Globe Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were killed. Black Snow is the story of this devastating operation, orchestrated by Major General Curtis LeMay, who famously remarked: “If we lose the war, we’ll be tried as war criminals.” James M. Scott reconstructs in granular detail that horrific night, and describes the development of the B-29, the capture of the Marianas for use as airfields, and the change in strategy from high-altitude daylight “precision” bombing to low-altitude nighttime incendiary bombing. Most importantly, the raid represented a significant moral shift for America, marking the first time commanders deliberately targeted civilians which helped pave the way for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later. Drawing on first-person interviews with American pilots and bombardiers and Japanese survivors, air force archives, and oral histories never before published in English, Scott delivers a harrowing and gripping account, and his most important and compelling work to date.
Mission to Tokyo
Author | : Robert F. Dorr |
Publsiher | : Zenith Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2012-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780760341223 |
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From Hell Hawks! author Bob Dorr, Mission to Tokyo takes the reader on a World War II strategic bombing mission from an airfield on the western Pacific island of Tinian to Tokyo and back. Told in the veterans' words, Mission to Tokyo is a narrative of every aspect of long range bombing, including pilots and other aircrew, groundcrew, and escort fighters that accompanied the heavy bombers on their perilous mission. Several thousand men on the small Mariana Islands of Guam, Saipan, and Tinian were trying to take the war to the Empire—Imperial Japan—in B-29 Superfortresses flying at 28,000 feet, but the high-altitude bombing wasn't very accurate. The decision was made to take the planes down to around 8,000 feet, even as low as 5,000 feet. Eliminating the long climb up would save fuel, and allow the aircraft to take heavier bomb loads. The lower altitude would also increase accuracy substantially. The trade-off was the increased danger of anti-aircraft fire. This was deemed worth the risk, and the devastation brought to the industry and population of the capital city was catastrophic. Unfortunately for all involved, the bombing did not bring on the quick surrender some had hoped for. That would take six more months of bombing, culminating in the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As with Mission to Berlin (Spring 2011), Mission to Tokyo focuses on a specific mission from spring 1945 and provides a history of the strategic air war against Japan in alternating chapters.
Napalm
Author | : Robert M. Neer |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674075450 |
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Napalm was invented on Valentine’s Day 1942 at a secret Harvard war research laboratory. It created an inferno that killed over 87,500 people in Tokyo—more than died in the atomic explosions at Hiroshima or Nagasaki—and went on to incinerate 64 Japanese cities. The Bomb got the press, but napalm did the work. Robert Neer offers the first history.
Wings of Judgment
Author | : Ronald Schaffer |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1988-09-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195056402 |
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A disturbing and perceptive study of the strategy, outcome, and choices behind the American bombing policies of World War II. The author analyses the explanations and moral arguments used by America's military leaders to justify the attacks on Dresden, Berlin, and Hiroshima.
Target Tokyo Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid That Avenged Pearl Harbor
Author | : James M. Scott |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 629 |
Release | : 2015-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393246766 |
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Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History "Like Lauren Hillebrand's Unbroken…Target Tokyo brings to life an indelible era." —Ben Cosgrove, The Daily Beast On April 18, 1942, sixteen U.S. Army bombers under the command of daredevil pilot Jimmy Doolittle lifted off from the deck of the USS Hornet on a one-way mission to pummel Japan’s factories, refineries, and dockyards in retaliation for their attack on Pearl Harbor. The raid buoyed America’s morale, and prompted an ill-fated Japanese attempt to seize Midway that turned the tide of the war. But it came at a horrific cost: an estimated 250,000 Chinese died in retaliation by the Japanese. Deeply researched and brilliantly written, Target Tokyo has been hailed as the definitive account of one of America’s most daring military operations.