On this day in 1945,

U.S. Firebombs Tokyo 

Most Destructive Bombing Raid Ever

100,000 Civilians Killed

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

Operation Meetinghouse is regarded as the single most destructive bombing raid in human history: 16 square miles of central Tokyo were wiped out, over 1 million rendered homeless, with an estimated 100,000 civilians killed.  The Japanese called it The Night of the Black Snow.

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