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…

The official reason for the US fire bombing of Wuhan was to blunt Japanese ichigo offensive, which has Wuhan as a transportation hub.

Japanese did stop the Ichigo campaign after completing all its objectives of controlling railway linking Beijing to Hong Kong and Hanoi and…

Carl Zha To explain the importance of Kunming which appears on the edge of the map.