More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago Monday in the U.S. firebombing of Tokyo, the Japanese capital. The attack, made with conventional bombs, destroyed downtown Tokyo and filled the streets with heaps of charred bodies.

Victims of the US firebombing of Japan’s capital in March 1945 have never received any welfare support More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago on Monday in the US firebombing of the Japanese capital of Tokyo.