lemay says let's switch from that tonight bombing at low -- to night bombing at low altitudes. and, by the way, switch to incendiary bombs, burning out japanese cities one after the other. that is what they ended up doing. if any of you are familiar of the results from tokyo -- the worst firebombing results were not interested or -- were not in dresden, but tokyo. at the end of the work, they had to make a decision as to what cities not to bomb so they had something left over to use the atomic bomb. march 9 and 10 is the bombing of tokyo. that is in the midst of the combat at iwo jima. it is very much part of the story. from the island, tokyo is 1400 77 miles one way. from you at jima -- from iwo jima, which is pretty much right in the middle, it is 760 miles. instead of flying from the atoll and making a dogleg around iwo jima, now you can capture it and use it as an intermediate base in case aircraft get in trouble maintenance wise or are damaged somehow. they can land on their way back on iwo jima. that is the strategic reason for iwo jima as far as the air force is concerne

had said to him, general curtis lemay, that if we had lost the war we would be tried as were criminals which was true. >> there's a question i think that we would been tried as war criminals. the only issue i have with it is there's been no near enough attention given to the asian holocaust and the real level of violence japanese perpetuate on the neighbors, not just on korea on china, estimates of the death or ten, 15, 20 million. it was terrible behavior all around. >> yes. and that has not been admitted by the japanese, by the way, which is one of the sources of real tension between japan and china. >> yeah okay, from rachel. you are already an expert on this topic, but what did you learn what surprised you the most while you are researching and writing this book? half of a of the recently declassified documents and studies changed the conventional wisdom on nuclear history? >> well, i learned a lot of things. i have been lecturing on this and teaching it for a long time. but when you develop a course it's based on the literature that's out there and exists. and, of course, sometime

talking and trying to summarise all the latest coronavirus news for you, because i will be talking to lemayttle while, because you might have heard in the news at one, that a major incident has been declared in the capital. —— talking to the may out of london. i will ask him what that means. let's assess the situation in wales. let's assess the situation in wales. wales‘s lockdown restrictions will be further strengthened in supermarkets, workplaces and schools and colleges in an effort to limit the spread of coronavirus, first minister mark drakeford has said. here he is speaking at the welsh government briefing earlier this afternoon... the new strain is undoubtedly adding a new, dangerous dimension to the public health crisis. wherever there's mixing, wherever people come together, the new strain is spreading. it is highly contagious and spreads very quickly from person to person. this is the background against which we have carried out the three—weekly review of the current restrictions. the outcome of that review will not be a surprise against that background, and it is that the lockdo

the war department and the public relations operation -- >> mckelway was actually working for curtis lemay at npr throughout the war, so he was the linchpin of the new yorker's operation. >> there was a lot of overlap like that. not a lot but a handful correspondence and artists in the armed forces and also acting for the armed forces. the new yorker ran a ton of profiles on military, sometimes the editors even commissioned stories from military figures, sometimes even public relations but for the most part, they were in the mix. i always loved the description of william as the hunch man where he would send one of his correspondence into the field, and he didn't know what it would be. he just knew there would be some. >> he trusted and believed in his writers. so, why john hersey. he was not born and bred as a ba new yorker. he came from the organization, but what makes him trust that he could get this story? >> he couldn't have been less from -- he was writing for times magazine and they hated each other, like voluptuous leg, publicly hated each other. reporting for the times in 1939, he

. >> mckelway whose work i once edited was working for curtis lemay and npr throughout the whole war so he is a lynchpin for "the new yorker" operation. >> there's a lot of overlap like that. a handful of the correspondence and artists were in the armed forces and "the new yorker" ran a profile on military and sometimes the editors commissioned stories from military figures and sometimes in public relations to keep things cozy with the war department. for the most part they were serious. they were in the mix very much so. i always loved the description of the "unquote hunch man a correspondent in the field and he didn't know but he just knew there would be one. >> he believed in as writers. but why john hersey? hirsi was not born and bred as "the new yorker." he came from -- what made sean trust that hersey could get this story? >> hirsi was writing for "time" magazine and henry louis was the head of new yorker hated each other. they voluptuously hysterically hated each other. hirsi had been reporting for time in 1939 and loose was grooming him to be the heir apparent to the times in

homeland security secretary nominee alejandra lemay arcus appearing before the senate committee. political headwinds on the horizon. speaking of, florida senator marco rubio has accused biden's cabinet picks of being "polite and orderly caretakers of america's decline, adding that he had no interest in returning to the quote normal that left us dependent on china." a preview of more fireworks to come. shannon. >> shannon: will watch those confirmation hearings. kevin, we know you're on it. thank you. one of the president's final proclamations, removing the pandemic travel restrictions for most of europe and brazil effective next tuesday. apparently that's going to be put on hold by the president-elect. a biden spokesperson saying that now is not the time to lift international travel restrictions with new, more contagious virus variance emerging. the president-elect is planning to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on day one and now a new caravan of migrants that left honduras last week appears to be paying very close attention to mr. biden's messaging. here's what one of them sa

so what lemay does, he says let's switch from daylight bombing at high out to toot tonight bombing atlow altitude. by the way, let's switch to incendiary bombs. and basically burn the japanese cities out one after the other. that is what they ended up doing. many of you are familiar with the results for tokyo. the worst fire bombing of the war wasn't hamburg or dresden, it was tokyo with the estimates of something like 100,000 casualties in that one bombing raid. and this is just one of many. by the end of the war, they had to make some decisions about what's cities not to bomb so that they had something left over to use an atomic bomb with. that's a different story. so, march 9th and tenth is the bombing of tokyo. that is right in the midst of the combat at iwo jima. but it's very much part of the story. from tinian island, tokyo is 1477 miles. one way. from it will jima, which is pretty much right in the middle, i quit distant, it's 760 miles. so instead of flying from tinian island and flying around iwo jima, now you can capture iwo jima and use that as an intermediate base in case

. >> great question amanda, lemay turned to doctor katz, we have this dialogue in detail yesterday. but how the precertification, i'm many use that phrase, to answer your question. precertification has been the model that has been working in our hospitals and this is the right model for the general public effort as well. exactly what you're saying, you want folks to do who do qualify to attest to the fact that they qualify, to give the details. to be already to go, to be ready and confirm identity, and go get vaccinated. so it was really really quickly. but we do want that kind of precertification effort to make sure that were all getting the highest priority folks. on that being said, when you think about all of those grocery store workers, transit workers, all of the folks who serve in our schools, first responders, that's a whole lot of people. that's a category of almost a million people. that category 1b. there are plenty of good new yorkers who need bend vaccine, and we can get them into that kind of precertification model so we can get it moved quickly. doctor katz you and ta

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