Re: Hello! [via LSMTP
Tom Holloway (xuegx@CSV.WARWICK.AC.UK)
Fri, 24 May 1996 13:18:32 +0100
Ryan Rollinson asked...
>Was anybody on this mailing list at Pearl Harbor? If so, can you relate some
>stories of your experiences there, if it is not too much trouble?
I have been waiting to see if there were any replies. The
MEMORIES project is about the effects of war on civilian
populations, rather than Naval installations like Pearl
Harbour (where of the 2,403 people killed only 68 were
civilians, the majority being sailors) but I think that
there are quite a few former members of the US Armed Forces
on the list. Perhaps they will write to you directly.
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It's interesting to compare that raid with others later in
the War; I looked in some books and found the following:-
Hamburg - 60,000/80,000 civilians killed and 750,000 people
made homeless. This was 'fire-bombing' in which massive
numbers of phosphorus bombs are used to create a
'fire-storm' which suffocates huge numbers of people, even
in their shelters (so you don't need to blow up the
shelters).
Tokyo - 100,000 civilians killed in just one raid; Japanese estimates
are 130,000 killed. Another 'fire-storm'.
Hiroshima - about 100,000 killed by a single bomb, another
one (on Nagasaki) killed 36,000
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