90 year old + people ?80th anniversary. Do people remember?
No. It's like the Alamo: people hear a slogan, are taught a date; understand the reference. It doesn't mean anything to them personally, and very, very few have taken the trouble to learn the why's and wherefore's, antecedents and sequelae of the event. It's just another one of those national monuments.Do people remember?
I was 12 at that time.90 year old + people ?
caught with their pants down
a massively successful battle
which started a war that was un-winnable
however in the years after
both sides have become allies & critical trade partners
who now help define the construct of modern civility
On the night of 9/10 March 1945, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) conducted a devastating firebombing raid on Tokyo, the Japanese capital city. This attack was code-named Operation Meetinghouse by the USAAF and is known as the Great Tokyo Air Raid in Japan.[1] Bombs dropped from 279 Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy bombers burned out much of eastern Tokyo. More than 90,000 and possibly over 100,000 Japanese people were intentionally killed, mostly civilians, and one million were left homeless, making it the most destructive single air attack in human history. The Japanese air and civil defenses proved largely inadequate; 14 American aircraft and 96 airmen were lost.
Canadians are unanimous that this is not OK.look at Canada & their native Indian internment camps for children where they committed genocide
& the canadians seem to be divided on a response
as if genocide is perfectly ok
that's goodCanadians are unanimous that this is not OK.
The Doolittle Raid wasn't strictly speaking a fire raid. The majority of bombs were HE. The fire raids were later on when the B-29s could reach Tokyo from land bases.the response by fire bombing tokyo was a bit risky
launching bombers from carriers