TUE 3 JUL 1945
Europe
Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Germany, (Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley) establishes headquarters at Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Pacific
Over 560 USAAF Air Force B-29s firebomb Kochi, Himeji, Takamatsu, and Tokushima, concluding the raid early the following morning.
Final mine plant of Phase IV of Operation STARVATION: 31 USAAF B-29s mine Shimonoseki Straits and the waters off Maizuru and Funakawa, Japan.
Japanese merchant tanker No.5 Nanko Maru is sunk by marine casualty, Seto, Inland Sea.
Japanese army cargo ship Hoei Maru is sunk by aircraft, 34°22'N, 126°25'E.
USAAF B-24s bomb Japanese shipping at Bandjermasin, sinking cargo vessel No.3 Misaki Maru.
Friday, July 3, 2020
Firebombing
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What was the point of firebombing those Japanese cities and incinerating all those people? Revenge? Unconditional surrender? Or did the US do that just because we could? 75 years later we are still terrorizing people (mostly brown and black people) from the air. Its just pure evil.
One can hope General LeMay is experiencing the same thing in hell...
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