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A Brief History of Strategic Bombing
Tinus lamay decided to drop e forty six clusters, meaning cluster bomblets. The witnesses said they looked like a bananas all clustered on a tree and then when they were dropped, they w all the bananas would split off separately. Each cluster would release 38 incendiary bombs of napalm and phosphorus, creating a rain of fire over the city. In all, eight thousand 519 clusters would be dropped, releasing 496 thousands individual cylinders weighing six point two pounds each. This resulted in 16 hundred and 65 tons of incendiaries to be dropped on tokio that night. And if there's one thing that has been learned about strategic bombing is that sometimes you get lucky, or