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EP13 Gladwell and the Bomber Mafia

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

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The Firebombing

The Tokyo firebombing may be the worst bombing of all time. The best way to attack a Japanese city was to burn them down because they were just tinderboxes. Napalm was developed in order to burn down Japanese cities. I don't think it feels any different to be bombed by the nuclear bomb that summer or to be bombed with napalm. There's a case you made the napalm worse.

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