Operation Meetinghouse
In the night of 9-10 Mar 1945, Americans bombed Tokyo, leaving 100,000 dead. "Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time", said Curtis LeMay. "I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal."
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