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Remains of Osaka after a night of American terror bombing, Japan, WW2, 1945 (lemmy.world)
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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Japan had a lot more wood-only city buildings back then

Wood, and worse, paper. The US made mock-ups of civilian Japanese buildings when we were testing napalm for use in the terror firebombings of 1945. It was... very effective against the mock-ups.

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