On this day in 1945,

U.S. Firebombs Tokyo - 

Most Destructive Bombing Raid Ever - 

100,000 Killed

                       U.S. War Dept. News Footage Video - Narrated By Ronald Reagan

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 were 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.

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