The Blackened Canteen
YELLIN, JERRY / 1stworld Library![The Blackened Canteen](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/420/4205070/CHSBZCOP034205070.jpg)
On June 20, 1945, just before the end of the war, 123 American bombers took off from the island of Guam for an attack on Shizuoka, a Japanese city at the foot of Mount Fuji. The raid destroyed two-thirds of the city, taking the lives of two thousand of its citizens. Twenty-three American airmen also died when two of their planes collided in mid-air. That these twenty-three men were enemy soldiers mattered little to one Japanese person who buri...