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What did the bombs contained that caused fires in Tokyo during world war 2?
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∙ 12y ago
It is called napalm.
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What kind of bombs caused massive fires in Tokyo?
napalm bombs
The US caused massive fires in Tokyo by dropping bombs filled with what?
napalm
The US caused massive fires in Tokyo by dropping bombs filled with?
napalm
The US caused massive fires in Tokyo bu dropping bombs filled with?
napalm
Why was Tokyo not hit with the atomic bomb?
Tokyo had already been hit by many firebombing raids, it would be too difficult to tell the damage they caused from the damage caused by atomic bombs.
What type of bombs were dropped on Tokyo by the US?
incendiary bombs.
What caused the massive fires when the us dropped bombs over Tokyo?
Homes in Japan were made out of a paper-like substance that burnt very easy, so the US dropped fire bombs
Was napalm bombs used on Tokyo late in the World War 2?
Nape may have been used on some pacific outpost battles, but INCENDIARY (Fire-bombs) bombs were used against Tokyo and the city of DRESDEN in Germany during WWII. Dresden was heavily firebombed. In Tokyo alone, over 100,000 people died in two days, and about 40% of the city, which was then about the size of New York City, was burned to ashes.
Did America drop the nuclear bombs on Tokyo?
No, the nuclear bombs which were dropped on Japan, were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Atomic bombs were dropped on the japanese cities of Nagasaki and tokyo?
Those bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6 and 9 1945.
What were two major problems that caused deaths during World War 1 and World War 2?
Bullets and bombs
What was hiroshima's purpose?
The Tokyo bombing with fire bombs did not move the Japanese to surrender so the atomic bombs were used. Hiroshima was the first target city.
