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Quotes from Interview with HistoryNet — Richard E. Cole

1915–2019 United States

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Our airplane had incendiary bombs. Our mission was to light up Tokyo.

Interview with HistoryNet (2019)

The raid was designed to do two things. One was to let the Japanese people know their leaders were not being truthful by saying Japan couldn’t be bombed by air. The other was to give the Allies, and particularly the United States, a morale shot in the arm.

Interview with HistoryNet (2019)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard E. Cole (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.