Inside the firestorm
New technology allows scientists to see the forces behind the flames.
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A model German apartment building goes up in flames during a test of the M-69 incendiary bomb in the 1940s at Dugway Proving Ground, in Utah.
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A Lancaster plane flies over Hamburg, Germany, in 1943. On the night of July 27, 1943, more than 700 planes dropped bombs that started the Hamburg firestorm.
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An aerial view shows ruined buildings in Hamburg, Germany, after the bomb-induced firestorm, in July 1943.
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