On the 75th anniversary of the firebombing of Tokyo, it is important to reflect and realize that the US bombing campaign against cities resulted in horrific war crimes. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/magazine/we-hated-what-we-were-doing-veterans-recall-firebombing-japan.html …
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Of course, the "pinpoint" bombings turned out not to be so pinpoint after all given the targeting technology of the time, and US bombing patterns tended to evolve to be more like mass bombings of cities as the ward dragged on.
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I am not saying it wasn’t a war crime or that we could not have done better. But in some ways it’s a shared responsibility. Japan and Germany had the means to stop the bombing. And had engaged in those atrocities first.
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Certainly after years of appeasements by the British and bombing of Rotterdam and the Blitz. I don’t the the British military cared much at all, how many civilians died. And certainly Britain and the US cares even less about the a Japanese
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