What happened on March 10th in 1945 at Tokyo

On the night of March 10th in 1945, it was very windy and dry in Tokyo.

U.S. Airforce 300 B-29s attacked downtown area of Tokyo on that night at low altitude with napalm bombs.
There were mostly wooden small houses and it was not a rich peoples' area.
Consequencely, about one hundred thousands of civilians mostly children and women died.
It was said that many piles of bodies around and floating in rivers. It took several years to
buried them correctly.
There was no military damage by that bombing operation.

After the war my father who was a medical doctor returned from the war and he decided to work at Tokyo.
When I came to Tokyo for the first time in 1948 most of the city was left as burned down.
I remember clearly to go to the school straihtly on the burned area. There were no houses.
We lived in upper town and it was bombed in May of 1945.

Before that bombing ,U.S. Airforce had lost many B29s at in day time, high altitude operations so it was said that they wanted to do something easier.
Commandor Henkel did not agree the kind of bombing but his successor did.
Some years ago a Japnese reseacher asked me if General Henkel was OK after his objected the order and fired his position.

The official document said that he finished his career without any problem.

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