LeMay's Inferno: Part Three: Fire for the Empire
Download MP3With the bombing campaign on the clock as the invasion of Japan draws nearer, Arnold replaces General Haywood Hansel with General Curtis LeMay to command the B-29s in the Marianas. LeMay is told to inflict maximum damage on Japan, and as his bombers fail to successfully destroy Japanese industry with conventional bombing tactics, LeMay is forced to improvise. Join us in this episode of LeMay's Inferno as we jump into the cockpit with a thousand American aviators as we ride along on the deadliest and most destructive bombing mission in human history: The March 9-10, 1945, Firebombing of Tokyo. The inferno has begun.