It is about 500 kilometers from Amami Port to Kumamoto City, and less than 600 kilometers to Sasebo. Based on the flight speed and distance, the B-1 bomber that took off later will reach Sasebo in about 1 hour and 48 minutes, while the Goose bomber
It takes almost 3 hours to reach the sky above Kumamoto City. At this time, the naval landing force is still far away from Miyazaki City. It will take them 23 hours to reach the landing point.
Sasebo is located in the northwest of Kyushu, Japan, and belongs to Nagasaki Prefecture. It faces Sasebo Bay, which is more than ten kilometers deep into the land. The inlet waterway is more than 800 meters wide and the water is more than 20 meters deep. It is a natural harbor. In the Meiji Era, it was
rThe navy was used as a military port and a garrison was established.
Since Sasebo Port is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the channel at the mouth of the bay is 10 kilometers long, it will be difficult to attack here with the navy. The defensive shore batteries located on the mountains on both sides and the mines in the water channel will be a nightmare for the attacking fleet, so here
It is not only an important military port of the Japanese Navy, but also the main shipbuilding base of the Japanese Navy.
Since the war between the two countries resumed, Sasebo, as an important naval base and shipbuilding base, has been classified as a top-level defense focus by the Japanese government. A brigade and an artillery regiment of the Sixth Division's Kumamoto Division are stationed here.
After r's fast fleet was bombed by the federal air force, r
Our navy has disassembled 15 bang-pom guns from warships and installed them in the military port. However, because our military has not paid attention to the issue of air defense before, and our country cannot produce its own anti-aircraft guns, other than these bang-pom guns
In addition, Sasebo Naval Port can only rely on air defense balloons.
An anti-aircraft balloon, as the name suggests, is a large balloon, usually as high as a two-story building, filled with helium, and then pulled by an iron chain and released into the sky hundreds of meters high. During World War I, the British once
Use this method to resist low-altitude bombing by German airships
.These balloons will be connected with iron chains. Several groups will float over targets that need air defense. If there are enough such balloons, ordinary bombers will not be able to carry out low-altitude bombing because of the iron between the balloons.
The chain will become an iron net blocking the flight of the aircraft.[
Because there are not enough anti-aircraft weapons, the British government has requested the purchase of anti-aircraft weapons from the United Kingdom and the United States. However, these two countries do not have many professional anti-aircraft weapons. Even if they are currently manufactured, it is too late. Therefore, the British government
It repeated its old trick and gave away the air-raid balloons left over from World War I to the Japanese government, numbering in the thousands.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, 30 B-1 bombers passed the wire guidance of the federal submarine lurking in the sea along the way. They accurately arrived at the Sasebo Military Port. The fleet used a small group of 6 aircraft, with a few kilometers between the small groups.
The advantage of this distance is that the bombers flying behind can see the landing point of the bombers in front, and can avoid repeated drops, because what they bring is not ordinary bombing, but burning.
The bomber group flew to the Sasebo Military Port from the south. In fact, when they flew over the suburbs of Nagasaki in a swaggering manner, they were discovered by the Japanese army on the ground and notified to the Sasebo garrison, but Nagasaki
The distance to Sasebo was too close. Before the defender put down his phone, there was already a buzzing sound in the southern sky, and some small black spots were already visible to the naked eye.
The weather today is very good, with not a single cloud in the blue sky. Sasebo Bay looks particularly calm under the sun, with scattered ships scattered across dozens of square kilometers of sea. Viewed from the air, there are only finger coverings.
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"Attention, captains, open the door and tell your shooters not to throw them all over the port. We will fly over the port twice and pay attention to the distribution of the shots." The bomber responsible for the pilot was also the air commander of this bomber group.
After confirming that the Sasebo Naval Port was ahead, he sent a preparation order to the entire fleet via wire.
The cabin door under the belly of the aircraft was slowly opened by a hydraulic device. A whistling cold wind poured into the cabin. However, the cabin of this kind of aircraft was separated from the cab, and the pitcher also sat in the cockpit, using a specially designed
Use the optical sight to roughly aim at the ground target, then move the electronic switch to drop the bombs in groups.
"Steady...Captain...it's too shaky...get ready...throw..." The pitcher lowered his head and put one eye on the sight, while trying to control his head.
The swaying aircraft was thrown away from the sight, and he pressed the switch with his hand. As his fingers flicked back and forth on the two rows of switches, the aircraft on the mounts in the warehouse moved from the open door one by one.
It fell from the warehouse door, and then it was like a piece of paper, blown away by the airflow, and fell down leisurely.
People on the ground had been reminded of the air raid from the air defense sirens that rang in the sky, but only a few people followed the pre-rehearsed steps and entered several air raid shelters, while most people deliberately ran to open areas or put down their weapons.
After work, I came outside the house, raised my head, and watched these huge aircraft flying over the air-raid balloons, dropping a series of small black dots.
"Boom...boom...boom..." First there was a small explosion, and then the muffled sound became a continuous sound. At this time, the people watching the excitement in the port woke up. This was no longer a drill.
Yes, the swarms of planes in the sky are not only strange and spectacular, but they can also kill people!
With the dense explosions, flames rose up from the ground. The first thing to be bombed was the shipyard. Their docks and large machinery targets were too obvious. Although they had the largest number of air-proof balloons on their heads, those
It did not stop the enemy's aircraft from exploding from above these balloons like scattered flowers on the goddesses below.
Within a few minutes, half of Sasebo Port turned into a sea of flaming flames and thick smoke. The power of these landed explosions was not great. If you look carefully, a cloud of white mist will be produced at the moment of explosion.
Then a ball of flame explodes, and everything around it, including water, will immediately burn.
There are not only steel plates and iron frames in the shipyard, but also piles of wood, paint, flax and oil. These things are inherently flammable. If a fire ball touches them, it will ignite a fire, and
When they burned, the thick smoke they released was more deadly than the flames. When the departing plane made a circle and flew back, the shipyard on the east side of the port could no longer be seen from the sky, and there was no black smoke at all.
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However, the black smoke did not stop the second wave of bombs. The federal bomber formation strictly followed the original design and dropped the remaining half of the bombs on the west side of the port. Then they did not fly away in a hurry, but
I circled around Sasebo Port again, and realized that the sky above Sasebo Port was filled with thick smoke, making it difficult to see anything, so I turned around and headed south, buzzing away.
At this time, Sasebo Port had become a purgatory. I don’t know whether it was intentional or not. Most of the second wave of bombings fell in the urban area of Sasebo. Most of the people living here were people who worked in Sasebo Port and their families. r
The unique wooden houses withstood the bombardment of fire, and in an instant the urban area also burst into flames.
At first, Sasebo's garrison organized multiple firefighting teams to extinguish the flames in the shipyard. However, they used seawater pumped from the sea to extinguish the flames. Instead, the flames spread through the flow of seawater.
It spread faster. Several firefighting teams were trapped in the fire because they did not pay attention to the direction of the spread of the flames. Their only fate was to be roasted to death by hundreds of degrees of heat, and then even their bodies were burned.
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In addition to the fire, there is also the thick smoke. Since this is the bottom of the bay, the sea breeze blowing in from outside the bay is heated by the flames and rises rapidly, causing local low pressure. Then the air in the strait with high pressure begins to
Moving towards the port, strong winds were generated, which
These air currents roared into the port, bringing not only sufficient oxygen, but also blowing thick smoke into the depths of the port. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote at Qidian.
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