- LeMay, Curtis E by Edgar Baldwin
... Pacific, where he launched firebombing raids on Japanese cities. As commander of U.S. Air forces in Europe from 1945 to 1948, he directed the Berlin airlift ( see Berlin blockade and airlift). From 1948 to 1957 he headed the U.S. Strategic Air Command, building it into a global strike force. He was chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force from 1961 to 1965. In 1968 he ...
- Hamburg by Ashlyn Reed
... 1815. In World War II Allied firebombing killed some 55,000 people and devastated the city. It was rapidly rebuilt after the war. The birthplace of Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms and home to the Hamburg Opera, it enjoys a distinguished musical history. It is Germany's foremost industrial city and northern Germany's chief economic centre.
- Spaatz, Carl by Parker Bowen
... subjugate the Germans—a theory the Allied invasion of France rendered untestable. After the end of the European war, Spaatz commanded the air force in the Pacific, directing the firebombing and, in August 1945, the atomic bombing of Japanese cities. He became first chief of staff of the independent air force in 1947 and retired the following year.
- Tokyo by Ruby Hicks
... plant. The American firebombing of Mar. 10, 1945, alone killed 80,000 to 100,000 people. The Meiji shrine (still the most popular in Japan), which was dedicated to Emperor Meiji and his consort, was badly damaged but has been restored. Left entirely intact were the imperial palace grounds and the surrounding area where the embassies, the diet building, and the ...
- Philadelphia by Elena Lawrence
... shaken by the controversial firebombing of a city block containing the home of an armed organization of black radicals. The decline of the central city was met in part by the construction of new office buildings downtown and development projects on the Delaware River waterfront, but the metropolitan area, long noted for its wealthy and exclusive suburbs (especially ...