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5 days ago · Although the precise death toll is unknown, conservative estimates suggest that the firestorm caused by incendiary bombs killed at least 80,000 people, and likely more than 100,000, in a single night; some one million people were left homeless. The Japanese later called this the “Night of the Black Snow.” bombing operations during World War II.
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A gigantic mushroom cloud rising above Hiroshima, Japan, on...
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1 day ago · The battle caused more than twice the number of American casualties than both the Guadalcanal Campaign and Battle of Iwo Jima combined, with the Japanese kamikaze effort causing the American Navy to suffer more casualties than any previous engagement in the Atlantic or Pacific.
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3 days ago · Dozens of American military prisoners of war died in Tokyo amid the U.S. firebombing of Japan as World War II reached a crescendo in the Pacific, and later their commingled remains were buried in ...
3 days ago · The Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia during World War II from 1942-1945 was a period of unimaginable brutality and suffering that left an indelible mark on the region. In just a few short years, millions of civilians were killed, enslaved, or subjected to horrific atrocities as Imperial Japan sought to establish its "Greater East Asia Co ...
4 days ago · occupation of Japan, (1945–52) military occupation of Japan by the Allied Powers after its defeat in World War II. Theoretically an international occupation, in fact it was carried out almost entirely by U.S. forces under Gen. Douglas MacArthur .
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2 days ago · A gigantic mushroom cloud rising above Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, after a U.S. aircraft dropped an atomic bomb on the city, immediately killing more than 70,000 people. (more) Along with World War I, World War II was one of the great watersheds of 20th-century geopolitical history.
2 days ago · Contemporary estimates of Japanese deaths from an invasion of the Home Islands range from several hundreds of thousands to as high as ten million. General MacArthur's staff provided an estimated range of American deaths depending on the duration of the invasion, and also estimated a 22:1 ratio of Japanese to American deaths.
