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To: COEXERJ145
Are you sure about Yokohama? Yokohama was firebombed in May, here's an interesting link

Air Raid against Cities of Kawasaki and Yokohama

49 posted on 05/06/2004 9:05:57 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
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To: GATOR NAVY
Yes, I'm sure it was included but I often wondered why as I knew it had been firebombed before. I took my information directly from the original Manhattan Project papers "Records of the Manhattan Engineer District" (only enough microfilm to go around the world 10 times).

– “Yokohama - This target is an important urban industrial area which has so far been untouched. Industrial activities include aircraft manufacture, machine tools, docks, electrical equipment and oil refineries. As the damage to Tokyo has increased additional industries have moved to Yokohama. It has the disadvantage of the most important target areas being separated by a large body of water and of being in the heaviest anti-aircraft concentration in Japan. For us it has the advantage as an alternate target for use in case of bad weather of being rather far removed from the other targets considered. (Classified as an A Target)”

I'm assuming it gets hit by LeMay sometime in between planning and designation as an atomic target.

57 posted on 05/06/2004 9:45:49 PM PDT by COEXERJ145
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