1972
The Howlers -- Caught in the Hell-Torn Holocaust that was DRESDEN!
SLAUGHTER from the SKIES!
"The Germans again and again missed their chance, ...of setting our cities ablaze by a concentrated attack. Coventry was adequately concentrated in point of space, but all the same there was little concentration in point of time, and nothing like the fire tornadoes of Hamburg or Dresden ever occurred in this country.
But they did do us enough damage to teach us the principle of concentration, the principle of starting so many fires at the same time that no fire fighting services, however efficiently and quickly they were reinforced by the fire brigades of other towns could get them under control."
— Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris
"...based on World War II experience with mass fires resulting from air raids on Germany and Japan, the minimum requirements for a firestorm to develop are considered by some authorities to be the following:
(1) at least 8 pounds of combustibles per square foot of fire area (40 kg per square meter),
(2) at least half of the structures in the area on fire simultaneously,
(3) a wind of less than 8 miles per hour at the time, and
(4) a minimum burning area of about half a square mile."
— Glasstone and Dolan (1977)
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