1939 09 01: Bombing of Wielun turns WWII into a World War, Luftwaffe, 1K killed.
1939 09 01: Bombing/shelling of Warsaw, Luftwaffe, 40K killed.
1940 09 07: Firebombing of London, Coventry, etc. starts, Luftwaffe (the Blitz).
1940 05 10: Firebombing of London, Coventry, etc. ends.
1940 05 14: Bombing of Rotterdam, NL, Luftwaffe, 1K killed.
1940 05 14: Bombing of Hamburg begins, RAF.
1941 12 07: Bombing of Pearl Harbor, IJNAS (Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service), 2.4K killed.
1943 07 24: Firebombing of Hamburg, USAAF and RAF, 50K killed.
1945 02 13: Firebombing of Dresden, USAAF and RAF, 25K-35K killed.
1945 02 19: B-29 missions against Tokyo start.
1945 02 25: Firebombing of Tokyo, USAF, 28,000 buildings destroyed.
1945 03 10: Firebombing of Tokyo, USAF, 100K killed.
1945 03 17: Firebombing of Kobe, USAF, 9K killed.
1945 04 12: FDR dies suddenly (stroke). ===========================
1945 04 30: Hitler suicides.
1945 05 07: Germany surrenders.
1945 07 20: Attempt to bomb Japanese Imperial Palace misses in overcast.
1945 07 26: Potsdam Declaration (Truman/Churchill/Chiang), This ultimatum stated that, if Japan did not surrender, it would face "prompt and utter destruction."
1945 07 28: Premier Kantaro Suzuki rejects Potsdam Declaration.
1945 08 06: Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, USAF, 140K killed (inc. deaths up to end of 1945).
1945 08 09: Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, USAF, 80K killed (inc. deaths up to end of 1945).
1945 08 10: B-29 missions against Tokyo end (last mission).
1945 08 15: Japan surrenders: Emperor Hirohito accepts the Potsdam Declaration.
1945 11 01: Scheduled commencement of invasion of Kyushu (not carried out).
1946 03 10: Scheduled commencement of invasion of Honshu (not carried out).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_bombing_of_cities
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebombing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokusatsu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyokuon-h%C5%8Ds%C5%8D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_War_II
Operation Gomorrah caused at least 50,000 deaths, and left over a million German civilians homeless. Approximately 3,000 aircraft were deployed, 9,000 tons of bombs were dropped, and over 250,000 homes and houses were destroyed.[citation needed] No subsequent city raid shook Germany as did that on Hamburg; documents show that German officials were thoroughly alarmed, and there is some indication from later Allied interrogations of Nazi officials that Hitler stated that further raids of similar weight would force Germany out of the war. Hamburg was hit by air raids another 69 times before the end of World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II#United_States_strategic_bombing_of_Japan
United States strategic bombing of Japan
The United States strategic bombing of Japan took place between 1942 and 1945. In the last seven months of the campaign, a change to firebombing tactics resulted in great destruction of 67 Japanese cities, as many as 500,000 Japanese deaths and some 5 million more made homeless. Emperor Hirohito's viewing of the destroyed areas of Tokyo in March 1945, is said to have been the beginning of his personal involvement in the peace process, culminating in Japan's surrender five months later.[112]
Originally posted by zeeblebot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II#United_States_strategic_bombing_of_Japan
Conventional bombing damage to Japanese cities in WWII[111] City ↓ % area
destroyed ↓
Yokohama 58
Tokyo 51
Toyama 99
Nagoya 40
Osaka 35.1
Nishinomiya 11.9
Shimonoseki 37.6
Kure 41.9
Kobe 55.7
Omuta 35.8
Wakayama 50
Kawasaki 36.2
Okayama 68.9
Yahata 21.2
Kagoshima 63.4
Amagasaki 18.9
Sasebo 41.4
Moji 23.3
Miyakonojō 26.5
Nobeoka 25.2
Miyazaki 26.1
Ube 20.7
Saga 44.2
Imabari 63.9
Matsuyama 64
Fukui 86
Tokushima 85.2
Sakai 48.2
Hachioji 65
Kumamoto 31.2
Isesaki 56.7
Takamatsu 67.5
Akashi 50.2
Fukuyama 80.9
Aomori 30
Okazaki 32.2
Ōita 28.2
Hiratsuka 48.4
Tokuyama 48.3
Yokkaichi 33.6
Ujiyamada 41.3
Ōgaki 39.5
Gifu 63.6
Shizuoka 66.1
Himeji 49.4
Fukuoka 24.1
Kōchi 55.2
Shimizu 42
Omura 33.1
Chiba 41
Ichinomiya 56.3
Nara 69.3
Tsu 69.3
Kuwana 75
Toyohashi 61.9
Numazu 42.3
Choshi 44.2
Kofu 78.6
Utsunomiya 43.7
Mito 68.9
Sendai 21.9
Tsuruga 65.1
Nagaoka 64.9
Hitachi 72
Kumagaya 55.1
Hamamatsu 60.3
Maebashi 64.2
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Originally posted by zeeblebotOne difference would be the absence of actual war in Iraq or Afghanistan -- war in the sense of conflict between nations, like Japan and the USA in WW2, both with their own heads of state, armed forces, etc. You seem to be proposing carpet-bombing your allies, the puppet states of Iraq and Afghanistan, such as they are.
this didn't happen in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we've heard no end of complaints about the "failure" to end these wars.
Originally posted by Bosse de NageIt was defined as a " Slap me down " by two intergrated ,
The war ended in Iraq some time ago; just police work now. There never was a war in Afghanistan ... only people dying for nothing. But maybe there was a mission. How was it defined?
super powers !!!!
Two leaders of the free world flexing their muscles !!! Stamping their places in history !!!
