Shizuko Nishio was the only child in her kindergarten class to survive the US bombing of Tokyo on March 9-10, 1945
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The nighttime raid caused an inferno that consumed 16 square miles (4,145 hectares) of the Japanese capital
Yoko Kitamura, who survived the bombing, always hated the sound of ambulances because it reminded her of the scream of air raid sirens
Shizuko Nishio, who was six at the time of the attack, fled to a bomb shelter with her family as bombs rained down on Tokyo
The firebombing of Tokyo is often overlooked because of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later, in August 1945
Shizuko Nishio's young cousin was one of at least 80,000 people killed in the bombing
On her sixth birthday 80 years ago, Shizuko Nishio clung to her mother as US B-29 bombers started a firestorm that turned humans to ash and To…