Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
- Episode aired Sep 6, 2022
Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb Part of Aviation and Naval Battles in the Pacific Week Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, near... Read allBlack Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb Part of Aviation and Naval Battles in the Pacific Week Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ... Read allBlack Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb Part of Aviation and Naval Battles in the Pacific Week Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing th... Read all