A map of the U.S. Army Air Force’s strategic bombing campaign on Tokyo on March 9-March 10, 1945. The aim was to cripple Japan’s industrial war efforts and strike targets that would render them as functionally useless as possible. Nonetheless, the black-inked areas were largely home to civilians. (2/12)

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A map of the U.S. Army Air Force's strategic bombing campaign on Tokyo on March 9-March 10, 1945. The aim was to cripple Japan's industrial war efforts and strike targets that would render them as functionally useless as possible. Nonetheless, the black-inked areas were largely home to civilians.

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