WWII History buffs

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

What was the designation of the principal incendiary bombs used in Tokyo after the flower baskets were dropped to mark the targets~?

I read somewhere that it was an M29 but this makes no sense.
I'm sure it was a "J" designation but if so what else?
There is no J29 that I have found.

[Stephen Beckham]

Funny you should ask - I was watching a show on the Discovery or History channel last night that was titled World Most Destructive Weapons. In which the third most destructive was considered those fire bombs use in Japan. Seems they caused such a hot fire, the rising air sucked out most of the oxygen so those that didn't burn, suffocated - then burn up in the spread of the fire.

What were they called? Not sure... :eek: CRS or SM :eek: I do recall them talking about the Brits using it first over Dresden first (may have been a different city). But then we followed suit. So the name might have been different than that of our normal naming schemes. It might have had a Brit name-tag that we used.