In June 1944, after the Allies landed on Normandy on , they successfully opened up the Western Front battlefield. With the defeat of German fascism, the US military gradually turned its attention to Pacific battlefield in Asia . In order to deal with the brutal and fierce Japanese troops, the US military decided to formulate an unprecedented "Japanese destruction operation", that is, to mobilize all the naval forces to transfer all military personnel from the European battlefield to Asia, with all participating personnel as high as 3 million. Relying on its strong industrial strength, it will launch a devastating blow to Japan.
However, such a majestic plan came to an end because of a sudden and cruel war. After this battle, the US military was completely depressed and gave up the massive anti-Japanese action, and used atomic bomb to quickly end the war. This battle is the "Okinawa Battle" with the largest casualties and the most severe losses on the Pacific battlefield.
Okinawa Battle Background
After the outbreak of the Pacific War , Japan gained the initiative in the Pacific battlefield in the early battles, but with the launch of the American war machine, the situation on the battlefield changed instantly. As the Japanese Navy general " 3 books and fifty-six " said, starting a war with the United States will be the most wrong thing I have done in my life!
As he expected, after the Battle of Midway, Japan's proud joint fleet lost all its main force, and since then it lost its strength to wrestle with the Americans and was forced to turn to defense.
As of 1944, the US military gradually attacked from the Western Pacific to the Eastern Pacific, and slowly rushed into the Japanese mainland.
On the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese army was completely surrounded by Chinese military and civilians, and the war against China was at a deadlock. After the battle of Wuhan , the Japanese army never moved forward again and fell into a confrontation with the Chinese army in Hunan.
The US military's unscrupulous bombing of the local area, coupled with the disastrous defeat of the Pacific War, made the Japanese army smell the sense of crisis. In order to ensure local security, the General Command of the Imperial Japanese has accelerated the formulation of a national defense construction plan. Crazyly dispatched the elite troops of the Northeast's Kwantung Army and the North China occupation forces to the local and Pacific battlefields to fight to the death with the US military.
As of 1944, the Japanese army transferred the most elite major divisions from China, such as the 5th, 6th, 15th, 17th, 18th, 21st, 33rd, and 38th, to the Pacific Ocean. Even the elite Kanto Army soldiers who were guarding against the Soviet Union were transferred away, leaving only some elderly, weak, sick and disabled.
In March 1944, the US military captured Iwo Jima , which was getting closer and closer to the Japanese mainland. Okinawa became the last island of the Japanese army to defend against it. In order to prevent the US military from landing in Japan, the Japanese base camp arranged two divisions and another brigade of the 32nd Army on Okinawa Island, a total of more than 50,000 people, and was fully commanded by the Army Lieutenant General " Niushima Man-k".
In order to give the US military a headache and crush their plan to invade Japan, the Japanese base camp issued a death order against the Japanese army on Okinawa. After entering Okinawa, all of you are dead. Don’t want to come back alive. Each person must kill 10 Americans before they die in battle before they can die!
In order to capture Okinawa, the US military decided to dispatch unprecedented military forces to completely defeat the Japanese army's determination and psychological defense line to resist. Both sides wanted to fight each other to death on Okinawa, and a cruel battle began.
Crazy Japanese Kamikaze Special Forces
Before landing on Okinawa, the US military dispatched a powerful aircraft carrier fleet and air force to carry out indiscriminate artillery fire strikes on the Japanese mainland Kyushu, Osaka , Kobe , and Japanese military bases and factories around Okinawa.
The US military dispatched all its strength. The Japanese knew that they were no opponents. In order to do their best to prevent the US military from landing on the island, the Japanese also went crazy and used their "Kamikaze Special Attack Team."
Starting from March 18, hundreds of Japanese suicide squadrons were bombarding the US aircraft carrier in a desperate fighter jet. They didn't even bring enough fuel, so they made up their minds to go but not return, and decided to change one aircraft to another. During the suicide attack of Japan, the US military's Hornet 2 and the USS Franklin aircraft carrier were hit by several rounds, and all the planes parked on the aircraft carrier were destroyed, and countless American soldiers were bombed into the sea to feed the fish.
In just two days of fierce fighting, the US military lost 116 fighter jets and five aircraft carriers were injured. But at the same time, the Japanese Kamikaze Special Attack Team was almost wiped out, losing more than 500 fighter planes, and a large number of excellent pilots went to the sea to feed the fish.
At this point, the Japanese army on Okinawa no longer had the support of the navy and air force, and completely became an isolated army waiting to be slaughtered.
On March 25, the 52nd Special Fleet of the US military began to attack the Keirama Islands around Okinawa Island. The Japanese army on the island had little resistance. Although the Japanese army launched suicide attacks with remaining aircraft, they could no longer save the situation of the war. On March 27, the US military completely occupied the islands around Okinawa Island, isolated the island's Naoshima.
At the same time, the Japanese Kamikaze Special Forces, which took off from Taiwan, also launched a suicide attack on the US fleet. The Japanese army, code-named " Kusui Battle ", sunk a total of 233 US warships and injured more than 300 ships, but at the same time, they also lost more than 4,200. Even the " Yamato battleship " that the Japanese are proud of was also attacked by the US military. At this point, the crazy Kamikaze Special Attack Team and the Japanese combined fleet were wiped out.
Bloody island capture battle
On April 1, Okinawa Island was sunny and sunny, and the landing of the US military finally began. Soldiers from San Francisco , Seattle , Hawaii and all over the United States began to head towards Okinawa Island with nervousness.
In order to ensure the smooth landing of the army and reduce casualties, the US fleet docked on the outskirts of Okinawa Island began to carry out carpet bombing of Japanese positions on the island day and night.
But what the US military did not expect was that the Japanese army did not garrison the coast at all, but hid in the cave cunningly. At 8 a.m., the U.S. advance troops began to land on the beach, but they were not at all resisted. On April 2, the US military dispatched more than 40 aircraft carriers and more than 3,000 fighter jets to bomb, which was a catastrophe for islands with an area of less than 500 square miles.
On April 4, tens of thousands of soldiers from the 1st Marine Division of the US and the 6th Marine Division began to land on the beach and occupied the entire coastline of Okinawa. Subsequently, the US military began to divide and occupy the central islands of Okinawa, and the 3rd and 24th Marine Corps also advanced north and south, launching an attack towards the highest point of Okinawa.
On April 8, just when the US military thought that the Japanese devils were just like this, the Japanese army hiding in the cave began to run out of the ground from the underground to launch a fierce attack against the US military. The US soldiers who were marching were caught off guard and were crazily harvested by the Japanese army's large-caliber shells and Type 92 heavy machine guns. In just two hours of fighting, thousands of casualties were killed and corpses were everywhere on the ground, but the US military did not even know where the Japanese army was.
The southern part of Okinawa Island is an area defended by the Japanese army. The 24th Marine Corps, which was marching here, was hit hard by the Japanese army. In order to defeat the enemy, the Japanese army hid the tank in the mountains and launched a surprise attack on the US army at the right time. The US military of
24 immediately responded and sent air support to bombard the Japanese positions ahead. However, the Japanese army relied on the steep terrain of cliffs, deep ditches and high valleys to fight to the death, and launched suicide attacks on the US military from time to time. The 24th US Army fought for two days and killed thousands of soldiers, but its propulsion speed was extremely slow.
April 13, US President " Roosevelt " died of illness in Georgia. Upon hearing this bad news, the US military, from generals to ordinary soldiers fighting on Okinawa, were shocked and sad. General Nimitz , was forced to order a suspension of the attack.
Who would have thought that the Japanese army would make a big fuss and brainwash the Japanese and civilians on the island, claiming that the imperial army defeated the US army, and angered US President Roosevelt to death. The morale of the Japanese army, who heard the victory report, was greatly boosted, and then Ushimashima ordered the Japanese army on Okinawa to launch a full-scale counterattack.
These crazy Japanese devils tied up explosives and rushed to the opposite US position with bayonets. The US military, who was immersed in grief, was caught off guard and was killed and injured by the Japanese army in one charge. Fortunately, Nimitz mobilized air force and naval superior firepower in time, and then drove the attacking Japanese troops back to the cave.
The US military, which was hit like this, launched crazy revenge on April 19. On that day, 249 artillery battalions of the US Army launched a 40-minute shelling against the Japanese army on Okinawa Island, firing more than 19,000 shells. Immediately afterwards, more than 600 fighters of Marine Corps carried out precision bombing of the Japanese positions, completely scaring the Japanese army to hide in the cave and not daring to show up at all.
Then, the US military used flamethrower and various giant explosives to destroy the Japanese bunkers and caves one by one. The Japanese army hiding in the cave was immediately swallowed up by the fire, and the remaining Japanese army was also blown to death by giant bombs!
But these Japanese troops, which have been crazyly brainwashed, have given up their lives. Under the heavy firepower attack of the US military, the Japanese army still relied on the terrain to resist tenaciously and reached a point where an inch of land must be fought for. Every step forward will cost a heavy price, and even every hole will have to fight for three or four days before it can be taken.
Okinawa civilians who suffered from war
On April 22, the US military invested another three main divisions 27, 76 and 96 to take over the attack, but every attack of their attack was still brutally disintegrated by the Japanese army.
By the end of April, the Japanese army had lost more than half of its troops in Okinawa. In order to defeat the US military, they began to brainwash the civilians on Okinawa again frantically.
Okinawa Island was formerly known as Ryukyu Kingdom, and was a vassal state of China. It was later occupied by Japan and renamed Okinawa. Although it was included in the territory by Japan, Okinawans are undeniable second-class citizens in the eyes of the Japanese. After the Japanese army entered Okinawa, they raped women unscrupulously and oppressed the people here. Seeing that the war was about to collapse, the Japanese army began to implement various means to force or induce the people here to act as their human bombs to attack the US military.
Under the brainwashing of the Japanese, Americans became demons who killed people without blinking. Death was much better than captives. Americans would cut off our noses, ears and even heads. They will cut off our fingers, rape our women, and plunder our property.
Then the Japanese army forced the Okinawans to join the Death Stormtrooper and sent them two grenades to each, one to attack the US military and the other to commit suicide for the whole family. Under the forced force of the Japanese army, more than 20,000 Okinawan men were forced to be incorporated into the militia stormtrooper, and tens of thousands of women and elderly and weak demanded that the US military commit suicide collectively before the arrival of the United States!
Under the brainwashing of the Japanese army, civilians on Okinawa began to launch crazy attacks and retaliation against the US army. The US military tried to persuade the civilians in the cave to surrender, but was bombed by grenades, and a large number of US troops died under the attack of civilians.
According to the post-war US military recalls
The civilians on Okinawa were completely crazy. They were brainwashed by little Japan, and even a child of four or five years old was attacking us. The picture is like hell on earth. Thousands of women and old people attack us with bombs and bamboo poles. In order to save our lives, we could only bear to kill them!
Under this crazy attack, many American soldiers were even scared to death, forced to stop fighting, and sent to the hospital in the rear for psychological persuasion.
The US military, which suffered heavy losses, had no choice but to kill all the people, together with the people. For a moment, the entire Okinawa Island was full of corpses, and the smell of blood was everywhere.
Destroying Japanese Army
On May 4, 1945, in view of the heavy casualties, Nimitz made up his mind to annihilate all the Japanese devils on Okinawa no matter how much the price they paid, leaving no one behind.
Under the attack of the US military, the Japanese army, which suffered heavy losses, also began to launch the craziest attack. The Japanese army hiding in the cellar began to carry out suicide attacks, and even civilians and women were acted as human bombs by them to attack the US army.
Waves of Japanese and civilians fell under the US machine gun and cannons. In the end, even the US soldiers were scared and at a loss.
But the war is still continuing, and the US military is advancing all the way, smashing the Japanese positions on Okinawa to pieces, leaving the last line of defense.
The war ended in mid-June, with only less than 20,000 Japanese troops remaining. On June 17, the US military deployed the reserve force, Second Land War Division.
After joining the battle, the division showed strong combat effectiveness, and successively broke through the Japanese army's most tightly defended positions, completely destroying the Japanese army's fighting will.
On June 19, Ushima Man sent a farewell call to Tokyo and the Emperor in Cave No. 89. On June 22, the main force of the US military captured the last position of the Japanese army. The remaining Japanese army knew that the doomsday had come, so everyone acted as the devil of the doomsday.
At the last moment of the war, the Japanese army simply stopped resisting. They began to massacre civilians on Okinawa Island on the island. The Japanese army holding sabers crazily chopped and killed women and men on the streets. After killing everyone, the Japanese army who could still walk returned to the cave, massacred all the nurses and wounded, and then committed suicide by cutting themselves through caesarean section.
On June 23, Niujima Man knew that the war had failed, so he changed into a kimono, said his final farewell to the staff around him, and then committed suicide by cesarean section. The remaining Japanese commanders in the cave also committed suicide by cesarean section.
When the US military completely occupied Okinawa Island, the entire Okinawa Island had completely become a bloody hell, with the corpses of civilians and Japanese troops everywhere, and the smell of gunpowder everywhere. On July 2, the Battle of Okinawa was completely over and the remaining Japanese troops were completely wiped out.
After the entire battle, the US military invested a total of 240,000 soldiers to participate. The battle that I thought could win quickly was fought from April to July. More than 20,000 American soldiers died in battle and injured more than 55,000. What is even more amazing is that after this battle, more than 20,000 American soldiers suffered from serious mental illness and were forced to withdraw from the army and receive treatment. The 100,000 Japanese troops participating in the war in Okinawa finally survived only more than 7,000 people, and the rest were all killed in battle. In addition, more than 100,000 civilians on Okinawa were forced to commit suicide by the Japanese army and died in the battle!
Although the US military paid a heavy price, it successfully opened the portal of Japan, which is close to Japan. From then on, the Japanese army had no strength to compete, and the US military's fighter jets could take off from Okinawa Island anytime and anywhere to bomb the Japanese mainland. But the battle in Okinawa also completely stunned the Americans. They saw the perversion and cruelty of the Japanese. In order to reduce casualties, Truman decided to give up his plan to land in Japan and ended the war with an atomic bomb.
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