Strategic Bombing:
Why was the abort rate so high?
Curtis LeMay- in charge of US strategic bombing, believed in total war
LeMay stated that anyone who aborted would be court marshaled. Abort rate decreases, productivity goes up.
Women worked in factories to build bomber planes. Factories had previously been used to make things like automobiles.
US worked with China against Japan. Using China as a base was inefficient, so the US decided to take back islands from Japan.
March 1945: Tokyo was firebombed, 100,000 dead, 50 square miles were burned
Population of approximately 50% of 67 Japanese Cities killed
"If we lost the war, we'd be tried as war criminals."
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