Many data from later generations show that the "Chongqing Bombing" lasted from February 1938 to August 1943. In fact, Chongqing was still being bombed until 1944, but the urban area was no longer bombed. The Japanese invaders
Factories and military installations were targeted.
Even in December 1944, Japanese planes were still bombing Liangping, Wanzhou, Kaixian and other areas surrounding Chongqing.
When Japan ended its bombing of Chongqing, the United States began its bombing of Tokyo!
On November 24, 1944, the U.S. military sent 88 bombers to attack Tokyo. The effect of this bombing was not obvious. Only a Japanese aircraft factory was slightly damaged, but it opened the prelude to the bombing of Tokyo.
The U.S. military uses daytime precision bombing tactics in Europe, specifically to destroy important military targets in Germany. However, this bombing tactic is not suitable in Japan because the weather there is so bad that it is difficult for pilots to accurately find targets at high altitudes.
As a result, the Americans, who suffered heavy losses in the Pacific battlefield, began to carry out night-time incendiary carpet bombings of Japanese cities. This tactic was targeted for several reasons. First, many Japanese military parts were scattered in small towns in residential areas.
Workshop production; secondly, Japanese cities are mostly made of wooden buildings, which are very suitable for barbecues.
In the next nine months, the US military launched 33,000 bombing sorties on 98 cities in Japan, dropping 160,000 tons of bombs, killing and burning 230,000 people, and injuring and burning 350,000 people. 24% of the houses in Japan were reduced to rubble.
, 1,600 aircraft were destroyed, and 1,650 ships were sunk and damaged.
Why is it called the Tokyo Bombing?
Because Tokyo was the worst bombed, just three bombings in 1945 killed 140,000 people in Tokyo, more than 50% of the houses in the city were burned, and more than 1 million Tokyo citizens were homeless.
Compared with the "Tokyo Bombing" that lasted for nine months, the damage caused by the two atomic bombs to Japan was minimal. Incendiary bombs were so exciting to explode. Take the air raid on March 9, 1945, for example, more than 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs
Throw it down, and 41 square kilometers of central Tokyo will be directly burned to rubble, and nearly 100,000 Tokyo citizens will become mobile torches.
Many times, Tokyoites are not burned to death or bombed to death, but suffocated to death due to lack of oxygen. Even if they can find a safe area to hide, all the surrounding buildings are burning, and the flames drain the oxygen from the air.
All you can do is wait for death.
To be honest, even if Japan is victorious in the Pacific, just a few months of bombing of Tokyo will make it difficult for them to continue. 24% of the houses in the country have been burned by incendiary bombs. How can Japan still fight the war?
This series of air raids, also known as the "Le Plum Fire Attack," was the worst fire attack in the history of human warfare. Fire burned throughout Japan.
Until the 21st century, many elderly Japanese people came forward to accuse the US military of inhumane behavior. They completely ignored the brutal aggression of the Japanese army against the people of various Asian countries, and kept saying that the Japanese civilians were innocent, while the US military imposed the trauma of the war on the Japanese people.
On the body.
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If it weren't for the countless small workshops scattered in Japanese residential areas, which were constantly providing parts and prefabricated parts to Japanese military industrial enterprises, would the US military have changed its tactics and carried out crazy bombings in Japanese cities?
Let's turn the calendar to 1945
In January, the Soviet Union occupied Warsaw, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force successfully joined forces with the Chinese Army in India.
In February, the US military occupied the capital of the Philippines, the Soviet army occupied Budapest, and Finland officially declared war on the Axis powers.
In March, Hitler ordered all of Germany to self-destruct, and the Soviet army occupied the Austrian capital.
In April, Roosevelt died of illness, and Truman succeeded as president. The Soviet army surrounded Berlin, and the US army captured Leipzig. The Soviet army and the US army met at the Elbe River, and then the Soviet army occupied Berlin. Mussolini was executed, and Hitler committed suicide. The preparatory meeting for the establishment of the United Nations was held in San Francisco.
Opening.
In May, Canadian troops occupied Amsterdam, Germany surrendered unconditionally, and Japan was destroyed.
On the Chinese battlefield, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army have been fighting like crazy. Last year, they conducted more than 20,000 large and small battles, annihilated nearly 200,000 Japanese and puppet troops, and recovered more than 20 county towns (the previous chapter was about conquering county towns, and some county towns were defeated)
came down and lost it), liberating more than 17 million compatriots. This offensive against Japan continued until the summer of 1945, and the Japanese invaders on the battlefield behind enemy lines were no longer able to stop them.
By the time the war reached this point, Japan's economy had already collapsed. The treatment of the Japanese soldiers in the battlefield behind enemy lines was not much better than that of the Chinese soldiers. Some Japanese soldiers even began to imitate the Chinese in making straw sandals. When they were so hungry, they formed a group to rob fellow villagers.
rations.
The reason for this situation is that the Japanese army transferred most of the supplies from the occupied areas to the front line to fight the decisive battle with the Chinese army, just like Stilwell transferred supplies from the Chinese theater to the battlefield in Burma.
This series of situations are all interlocking. Stilwell's counterattack in Burma left China empty of supplies and soldiers on the front battlefield, and the Japanese defeated Henan, Hunan and Guangxi. In order to realize the "Operation No. 1" plan, the Japanese army caused the Japanese
The occupied area was depleted of supplies and soldiers, and the Eighth Route Army and New Fourth Army took the opportunity to counterattack for more than a year.
At the same time, Chang Kaishen shouted the slogan "One hundred thousand young people, one hundred thousand troops", organized 35 new infantry divisions, and formulated a plan to counterattack Southwest and South China in February 1945. In the spring of the same year, the Supreme Command of the Chinese Theater Command
He also formulated the "White Tower Plan" and decided to launch a general counterattack against the Japanese invaders in the autumn.
In the spring and summer, the Chinese army carried out the Battle of Western Henan and Northern Hubei and the Battle of Western Hunan at the same time, which kicked off China's frontal battlefield counterattack.
Facing the pincer attacks of the Chinese army on the frontal battlefield and behind enemy lines, the Japanese invaders continued to retreat and could only make this plan: "Even if the situation has reached the last moment, we must ensure the important areas around Nanjing, Peiping and Wuhan."
In other words, the Japanese army is very pessimistic about the situation on the battlefield in China. Except for the Northeast region, they only want to defend Peiping, Nanjing and Wuhan.
Last year's rout of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, the Japanese army seemed to have won a complete victory, but its logistical supplies on the Chinese battlefield had been consumed countless times, and it was difficult to provide follow-up support due to the US bombing at home, and most of the supplies on the battlefield behind enemy lines were cut off by the Communist army.
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In 1945, the Japanese army in China was in a very difficult situation, whether on the battlefield behind enemy lines or on the frontal battlefield, and could not withstand the joint attack of the Nationalist Army and the Communist Army.
By August, the national army had regained part of the land in Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Henan and Suiyuan provinces on the frontal battlefield. In July, Chiang Kai-shek even formulated a plan to counterattack Guangzhou and wanted to use force
Take back Guangzhou and try to open up a maritime supply route to obtain international support.
Therefore, even if the United States did not drop the atomic bomb, and even if the Soviet Union did not send troops, the armies of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party could drive away the Japanese invaders on their own.
Because Japan has run out of fuel and is at the end of its rope.
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