Historian Richard Overy explains how the US firebombing of Japanese cities in 1945 killed more civilians than Hiroshima and ...

The napalm bombing of Japanese cities remains far less notorious than the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even though more people died.

The single bloodiest day of World War II was the firebombing of Tokyo — before atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Pictures from History/Universal Images Group/Getty Images via CNN Newsource B-29 bombers fly over Mount Fuji en route to bomb Tokyo in 1945.

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On Sept. 2, 1945, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz officiated the ...

Long Islanders who served included a sergeant who flew a record number of bombing missions and soldiers who took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy.

Gerald Auerbach, who flew in B-29 Superfortress firebombing raids over Japan during World War II and was one of the few veterans of that ere to live for that 100 years, has died, according to ...

Almost 90 US B-29 bombers dropped about 6,000 tons of napalm on Kumagaya, Japan, on the night of August 14-15, 1945. Eighty years later, the scars of that American firebombing remain.