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Survivors recall horror of Tokyo firebombing 80 years on / 36Z28W4
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On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned humans to ash and Tokyo into a wasteland. At least 80,000 people died, according to Japanese and US historians.
Five months before the United States dropped atomic weapons on Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nighttime raid on March 9-10, 1945 was World War II's deadliest using conventional bombs. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES