Tokyo

In early 1945 WW 2 was coming to an end. In an attempt to speed things up the Allies resorted to fire bombing cities in Germany and Japan which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Japan's air force was no longer a threat and on the night of March 9, 1945, 334 B-29's took off to raid Tokyo and they dropped 1,665 napalm bombs on Tokyo. Napalm is designed to cause fires and Tokyo was a city with many wooden buildings so the fire was amplified and an estimated 100,000 people died. There were no military facilities in Tokyo. The Japanese refused to surrender until a few months later in August when the Atom Bombs were dropped on Japan. Some wonder how this would have been reported if the Internet were around.