Eighty years ago today, March 9, 1945 (January 25, 1945 in the lunar calendar), Japan bombed Tokyo. Japan's Tokyo Bombing From November 1944 to August 1945, the U.S. Air Force carried out strategic bombing of 98 cities in Japan. It dispatched a total of 33,000 B-29 bombers and dropped 160,000 tons of bombs, killing 230,000 people and injuring 350,000 others. 24% of Japan's houses were turned to ruins, 1600 aircraft were destroyed, and 1650 ships were sunk and damaged. Tokyo is the city most damaged by conventional bombs and the city with the most deaths caused by conventional bombing in the world. In 1945 alone, three bombings killed 140,000 people, burned more than 50% of the city's houses, and left more than a million people homeless. On the night of March 9, 1945, 334 B-29s flew directly from Guam to Tokyo, carrying out repeated sweeping bombings, dropping more than 2000 tons of incendiary bombs. 41 square kilometers of the city center were razed to the ground, and 267,000 buildings were burned. A total of 83793 people were killed and burned to death.(The actual death toll may exceed 90,000), exceeding the death toll of the Tokyo earthquake on September 1, 1923 (73,000); another 100,000 people were seriously burned and 1 million people were homeless. This extremely bold combat operation was called "Li Mei's gamble." On the night of May 9, more than 300 B-29 bombers came to Tokyo again. Each carrying 6 tons of incendiary bombs flew at low altitude along the Higashi-Sumita River in Tokyo. They bombarded them for two and a half hours in turn, throwing all the bombs in densely populated areas. Everything on the ground was completely burned down. The plane can still see the sky in the Pacific Ocean 250 kilometers away. There were several fires that lasted for four days. Tens of thousands of victims died of suffocation due to burning and exhausting oxygen, especially in low-lying areas. People on fire and lack of oxygen rushed to jump into the river to survive. As a result, the Sumida River was filled with bodies as black as charcoal. People rushed to hide in the sturdy Meiji Theater, where suffocated bodies were stacked two meters high. At that time, Japan's local air force and air defense forces had been destroyed, and American aircraft seemed to have been in unmanned land. In addition, there were only 9 doctors and 11 nurses left among the government medical staff in Beijing, completely losing their rescue capabilities. On May 26, 500 B-29s made another "cleanup" and dropped 4000 tons of incendiary bombs on residential areas in the north and west. Fires caused by fuel oil fell from the sky, and tall buildings floated in the sea of flames. Since then, Tokyo has become a "dead city". There are no more good houses and healthy people to bomb, and the value of bombing has been lost. Japan's bombing of Tokyo Major General Li Mei flew over Japan's B-29 bomber group, Japan's bombing of Tokyo, Japan's bombing of Tokyo