扭曲的战略：重探美国空袭日本

The United States dominates the world in airpower. Behind the birth of the US Air Force is a little-known story about the deadly firebombing campaign against Japan at the end of World War Ⅱ. NHK combed through audiotaped interviews with 246 senior Air Force officials, including the leader of the air assault on Japan, Gen.Curtis LeMay. The interviews reveal how an "ideal" strategy designed to cause minimal civilian casualties ultimately went awry, and gave way to attacks with incendiary bombs that claimed some 400,000 Japanese lives.
　　美国在空中力量上占主导地位。在美国空军诞生的背后，是一个鲜为人知的故事，讲述的是二战结束时对日本发动的致命火力轰炸行动(Ⅱ)。NHK梳理了246名空军高级官员的录音采访，其中包括对日本空袭的领导人Curtis LeMay将军。这些采访揭示了一个旨在减少平民伤亡的“理想”战略最终是如何失败的，取而代之的是用燃烧弹发动的袭击，这些炸弹夺走了约40万日本人的生命。