U.S. Firebombs Tokyo -
Most Destructive Bombing Raid Ever -
100,000 Killed
On the night of 9–10 March 1945, Operation Meetinghouse was conducted and is regarded as the single most destructive bombing raid in human history: 16 square miles of central Tokyo was wiped out, over 1 million were made homeless with an estimated 100,000 civilian deaths. The Japanese later called this event Night of the Black Snow.
More here from Wikipedia
And another video here that discusses in part the bombing's devastation:
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