HIST 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Bombing Of Tokyo, Bombing Of Hamburg In World War Ii, Aerial Warfare
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U. s offense: president roosevelt, arsenal of democracy, explained the importance of supplying the people of europe, at the time primarily britain, fear when american p-51 mustangs appeared over berlin escorting waves of bombers. Nagasaki- u. s bomb on nagasaki august 9th 1945. Hiroshima- august 6th 1945, u. s drops atomic bomb. 40000 buildings destroyed, 100000"s die due to radiation poisoning. Operation meetinghouse, march 1945, firebombed tokyo, killed over 100000 civilians: hamburg- july 1943 operation gomorrah. Shipyards, u boat pens and oil refineries were attacked. Killed 42600 civilians wounded 37000 more: dresden- february 1945, usaaf dropped more than 3900 tons of high explosive bombs. In the pacific, the u. s. navy operated against japanese merchant shipping. U. s home front: no automobiles were built in 1943 & 1944 because factories were used to build tanks and other military vehicles. Meat and other luxury food were strictly rationed. Government encouraged public transportation to save on rubber tires.
