US fire bombing of Wuhan on Dec 1944. A very little known tale.
US wanted revenge for Japanese killing 3 captured US pilots on the streets of Wuhan. Chiang Kai-shek approved LeMay's 1st large scale strategic bombing. Dec 18th, nearly 200 US bombers dropped 500 tons of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…pic.twitter.com/xiAchmXoUI