Firebombing
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Firebombing is an aerial bombing technique designed to damage a target, generally an urban area, through the use of fire, caused by incendiary devices, rather than from the blast effect of large bombs
An American aircraft drops napalm on Viet Cong positions in 1965.
A German World War II incendiary bomb remnant
Firebombing in Braunschweig, Germany, 15 October 1944
Charred remains of Japanese civilians after the bombing of Tokyo
On the night of 9/10 March 1945, the United States Army Air Forces conducted a devastating firebombing raid on Tokyo, the Japanese capital city. This attack was code-named Operation Meetinghouse by th
A road passing through a part of Tokyo which was destroyed in the 10 March 1945 air raid
A B-29 dropping conventional bombs over Japan. The bombs are being scattered by the wind, a common occurrence which made precision bombing difficult.
Two M69 incendiary cluster bombs on display at the Niigata Prefectural Museum of History
A USAAF reconnaissance photograph of Tokyo taken on 10 March 1945. Part of the area destroyed by the raid is visible at the bottom of the image.