In Japan, with the high degree of firebombing, it is apparently quite rare to find cities with significant amounts of pre-war buildings still in place. I suspect that if you looked closely at places that had heavy saturation bombing (carpet bombing, firebombing), you'd find that most of their construction is to some degree postwar. There are exceptions, such as the firebombing of Dresden and Hamburg. Paul's Cathedral by luck, and the fact that the famous buildings there were tiny islands in an ocean of less-famous buildings) and think of the attempts to blow up specific factories or specific bases. So think either the fairly random distribution of V-1 and V-2 missiles in London (which only missed St.
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