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#OnThisDay, March 16, in 1945, America began a two-day campaign of firebombing Kobe, Japan (depicted in Grave of the Fireflies, 1988, Studio Ghibli)

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A scene from an animated film. A young boy carries an infant girl on his back, looking up at the sky, where planes drop incendiary devices on the town

Shots of war planes flying in the

Incendiary devices, which look like flaming sticks, drop among streets and houses in a small Japanese town

People have fled their town to huddle together on the beach amidst small boats, while their city burns in the distance as planes fly above in the darkened, smoky clouds

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