Explore All The Pods

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk We Have Ways USA Family Stories Between The Lines We Have Ways Audiobooks

Latest Pod Series

Iwo Jima The Battle of Bulge Auschwitz The Women of SOE The Duel: A Nazi Escape Plan All Series

WW2 Pod We Have Ways

The Firebombing of Tokyo

Photo: Boeing B-29A Superfortress (44-61784) of the 6th Bombardment Group on an incendiary mission to Osaka, Japan, June 1, 1945. U.S. Air Force photo, public domain.

Listen on

The Firebombing of Tokyo

Rate

Feedback Save

Goalhanger

5 Sept, 2022

WW2 Pod We Have Ways

57 mins

Japan at War

The Atom Bomb

USAAF (United States Army Air Forces)

War in the Pacific

Strategic Air Campaign

Al and James are joined by historian and author James M. Scott to talk about his new book 'Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, The Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb', and discuss the devastating midnight air raid on March 9th 1945.

A Goalhanger Films Production Produced by Harry Lineker Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Twitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPod Website: wehavewayspod.com Email: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meet the Speakers

James Holland

Historian, writer, and podcaster, specialises in World War II and hosts "We Have Ways" podcast.

Al Murray

Al Murray, comedian, writer, and historian, co-hosts the WWII podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk and writes on

WW2 Pod We Have Ways

The Firebombing of Tokyo

The Firebombing of Tokyo

Meet the Speakers

James Holland

Al Murray

James M. Scott

Related Podcasts

Rommel, Rations and the Battle of Sangshak

The Thing About Hitler

Live at the Chalke Valley History Festival

Colditz and our Book List

We Have Ways Live from Edinburgh

The Battle of Midway

Racial Divisions and the War at Sea

Bert Stiles - Serenade To The Big Bird

Atomic

Bombers and Boats

The War in the Air

Bombers and Gliders

Mosquito Missions

Where the War was Won - Part 2

Battle of Britain - Part 3

VJ Day special - Fighting in the Far East

VJ Day special - Robin Rowland: Part 1

VJ Day special - Robin Rowland: Part 2

VJ Day and the Atomic Bomb

From El Alamein to the Heroes of Telemark