re: December 17, 1943 - A Super Bomber to Break Japan

In Toyko, a lot of industry was scattered site, small scale production in residential neighborhoods. Not sure if that held true for everywhere in Japan. But LeMay firebombed about 60 cities before hostilities ended and killed untold numbers of Japanese, both military and civilian. But civilians took the brunt of the napalm raids and LeMay didn't lose a minutes sleep over the civilian deaths.

After the war, he said if America lost the war, they would have been hung as war criminals.