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February 8, 1945

Americans themselves say nothing will remain of our beloved city. The Japanese have gone on an orgy of savage burning…The Japanese cornered have turned on 500,000 civilians. The American soldier says “I am used to deaths and killing but my flesh creeps when I remember what I have seen”. He said the acrid smell of burning flesh rises from high in the winds, that the streets are littered with the dead.