On the night of August 14, 1945, just 12 hours before Japan announced its unconditional surrender to World War II, 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tonnes of Napalm in the city of Kumakaya. The fires melted everything to 800 to 1,200 degrees Celsius, killing at least 260 people, injuring 3,000 and destroying about 75% of the city of 47,000 inhabitants. This attack was the last US air strike in the war. The pilots had been informed that if the word “utah” sounded on the wireless, it would mean that Japan had surrendered and returned to the base. The message never came and late on the night of August 14, 1945, the attack began. The testimonies are shocked by Kazue Hoxo, then seven years old, as CNN writes, she remembers running with her mother and siblings under the “rain” bombs. A fragment hit her mother in the throat and her infant sibling suffered a serious burn. […]
Source: News Beast
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