article_snippet: Exhausted residents also chose to pull blankets over Exhausted residents heads and sleep when air-raid sirens blew instead of heading to shelters turned icy by an unusually cold winter.
article_snippet: the bombing campaign set a military precedent for targeting civilian areas that persisted into the Korean and Vietnam wars and beyond.
article_snippet: Mark Selden, a Cornell University history professor said: 'Both governments, the press, media, radio, even novelists... decided the crucial story was the atomic bomb. '
article_snippet: The decrease in weight meant that the planes were able to increase the planes bomb load capacity and speed when flying.
article_snippet: It is believed that U.S. General Curtis LeMay said they were going to deliver a 'big firecracker'.
article_snippet: Around 334 bombers were used in it the deadliest conventional air raid ever and exhausted residents chose to pull blankets over exhausted residents heads and sleep when air-raid sirens blew instead of heading to shelters turned icy by an unusually cold winter.
article_snippet: This meant that there was huge human carnage with the smell of burning flesh even making the pilots grab oxygen masks to stop the pilots from vomiting.