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TIL about Operation Meetinghouse, the deadliest bombing raid in history. On March 10, 1945, U.S. bombers dropped incendiary bombs on Tokyo, resulting in the deaths of over 100,000 people and the destruction of 267,171 buildings. This raid was even more destructive than the atomic bombing

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