Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mnetor.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!clewis From: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: World War II Message-ID: <574@mnetor.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-May-85 12:53:53 EDT Article-I.D.: mnetor.574 Posted: Fri May 10 12:53:53 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 10-May-85 14:23:08 EDT References: <919@homxa.UUCP> <> <474@nmtvax.UUCP> Reply-To: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 14 Summary: In article <474@nmtvax.UUCP> maurice@nmtvax.UUCP (Roger M. Levasseur) writes: > >In fact, the Army Air Corps tried a few other times to start fire storms >in other cities, but for one reason or another, a fire storm never started. >However, the only difference between the atomic bombings and others was >that there was only one bomb as opposed to hundreds or thousands of bombs. Read Caidin's book "A Torch to the Enemy". They were very successful in starting fire storms (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) in many Japanese cities. Eg: Yokohama 95+% destroyed. -- Chris Lewis, UUCP: {allegra, linus, ihnp4}!utzoo!mnetor!clewis BELL: (416)-475-8980 ext. 321