About a dozen of the 334 B-29s at this event were downed because of columns of heat.
St. Clair McKelway, who did public relations for this event's planner, called the perpetrators of this event"the thousand kids." This March 9-10 event was codenamed Operation Meatinghouse and it proved the valueof a series of tactical innovations such as (*) flying at low elevations at night in order to avoid clouds and destroythe cottage industries located in wooden homes. This event that led to more than 100 000 deaths was the deadliestconventional air raid in history. It was the first in a campaign planned by Curtis Lemay that later targeted Nagoya,Osaka and Kobe. About a dozen of the 334 B-29s at this event were downed because of columns of heat. For 10points, name this 1945 US Army Air Force air raid that led to a firestorm consuming much of the Japanese capital.
St. Clair McKelway, who did public relations for this event's planner, called the perpetrators of this event"the thousand kids.
Firebombing of Tokyo [or Operation Meatinghouse before mention; or Great Tokyo air raid; prompt on "firebombing of Japan" and equivalents]