Richard Marshall's Aug. 16 Free for All letter, " The effect of napalm," stated that "Napalm was first used in war by the United States in the firebombing of German and Japanese cities . . . [and] did ...
Just after midnight on March 10, 1945, fire began falling across eastern Tokyo. The raid was called Operation Meetinghouse. It sent hundreds of American B-29 Superfortresses over the Japanese capital ...