In all, almost two hundred thousand Japanese died in the fire bombing.

How different it appeared now than on his first afternoon in Tokyo, when Ed Porter had given them the statistics of the fire bombing.

Klemperer and other surviving Jews were saved by the fire bombing.

However, Tommy's records surface from the Corps and reveal that he deserted the military after his entire unit was killed in a friendly fire bombing.

Mayor Thompson imposed a 36-hour curfew after several suspected fire bombings.

Falling over, arms out stretched, he dies in the grass that has been scorched by previous fire bombings: nepalm.

He experienced the fire bombing of Dresden in February 1945 which destroyed most of the city.

The deaths from battles, fire bombings and nuclear bombs used during the two world wars alone has been estimated between 50 to 80 million.

Later that Thursday night, between 10-11 p.m., fire bombings were reported at the homes of two sanitation workers who had worked earlier that day.

Violence directed at such social protests resulted in the fire bombing of one church and the shootings of civil rights demonstrators.