945, the United States sent 334 bombers to the sky above Tokyo, Japan. Within 3 hours, the city was blown into ruins. Subsequently, the bombing operation was staged in other Japanese cities. The US military deployed a total of 2,000 tons of bombs , which not only destroyed all buildings, but also more than 580,000 residents, who suffered the destruction of bomb fire and were placed on a "barbecue grill". What happened to this Tokyo bombing ? Why did the US military do this? Interested friends can like and follow.
Tokyo bombing
Tokyo bombing
1945, 334 b-29 bombers flew out from over Mariana Islands hm3. They were all bombers from the US Air Force. Soon, two navigation aircraft of the US Air Force first arrived over Tokyo. They dropped a flare at the target location Shimocho area that they had booked before, and then immediately dropped a firebomb, which was to indicate the target to the bomber troops behind. After all the bombers arrived at the designated location, and they began to throw napalm bombs at the ground in Tokyo, and the bombing operation lasted for two hours. carries at least six tons and up to eight tons of incendiary bombs on the fuselage of each bomber. The power they produce can reach a combustion area of 6,500 square meters. Each bomber of cooperates to throw incendiary bombs in sequence at single-machine intervals, and a sea of fire quickly ignited on the ground.
b-29 bomber
That night, convective winds formed due to the scorching air waves caused by the fire and the low temperature in the original air, causing a fire whirlwind to appear in Tokyo. 334 B-29 bombers dropped a total of more than 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs in Japan. The high temperature generated by the explosion of these 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs caused all buildings and residents on the ground to burn themselves. The bombing operation of
was caused in total. The 41 square kilometers of was burned and destroyed. One-quarter of the entire Tokyo area has been razed to the ground. 63% of these are commercial enterprises, 18% are industrial areas, and the rest are all residential areas. In the plan before the bombing operation began, all 22 industrial areas that the US military wanted to destroy were successfully destroyed, and more than 580,000 Japanese were burned to death or burned.
Fire cyclone
During this bombing operation, 9 b-29 bombers were successfully shot down by the Japanese army, and 5 were severely attacked and forced to land on the sea surface. 42 were slightly damaged and returned to the air base in advance.
This bombing operation from the US military is called Tokyo bombing . It is called may be the most destructive non-nuclear air strike in human history, and it is more serious than any military operation in World War II . The follow-up problems caused by the bombing operation, including those charred bodies, took Japan a full 25 days to deal with them.
Tokyo bombing
In fact, this bombing operation has been the action of the US military after changing its strategy. The commander of this operation is Curtis Limei , so it is also called Limei Fire Attack . In 1944, the US Air Force launched the first bombing on Japan. At that time, they sent 33,000 B-29 bombs, targeting a total of 98 cities in Japan. At that time, a total of 160,000 tons of bombs were dropped, and 24% of the entire Japanese houses were all turned into ruins.
Among them, Tokyo is the city that is most severely damaged by bombs, and it is also the city in the whole world with the largest number of deaths caused by conventional bombing. Long before bombing Tokyo, the United States had sent bombers to bomb Germany and successfully destroyed Germany's military industry.But this time they did not attack Japan's military industry very effectively because Japan's industrial system is completely different from Germany's industrial system.
Li Mei
Japan's industrial production model is to produce all parts and prefabricated parts by small workshops scattered in residential areas, and then uniformly send them to large factories for assembly. The US military reserved the precise bombing in advance and could not destroy all these scattered workshops. Then Curtis Limei was appointed as the commander of the 21st Bomber Force.
Li Mei Fire Attack
He first launched a large-scale bombing on Tokyo, and successfully destroyed at one time. This result made Li Mei more determined to have a night fire attack. He also re-analyzed the situation and changed his previous tactical strategy. ordered all the guns, turrets and ammunition on the bomber to be removed, so that the weight of the b-29 bomber's fuselage could be reduced, and then more incendiary bombs could be carried. And after considering the weather in Japan and not suitable for precise bombing during the day, they arranged their actions at night to carry out carpet-style incendiary bomb bombing on Japan.
Li Mei fire attack tragic
All bombers are kept at a height of 5,000 to 6,000 feet. The explosion effect produced in this way can shock residents more. can destroy the production parts and small workshops scattered in residential areas, achieving the purpose of severely hitting Japan's military industry and completely paralyzing it. Moreover, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties of its own troops, there were no bombing formations deployed when carrying out the bombing operation, but bombers bombed alone.
had a guide aircraft in front to throw flares, and then the bomber behind reached the target area. At that time, the plan for this operation was suspected by all the bomber pilots because they had never fought like this before, but Li Mei promised them that they would succeed, and that even if there was an accident, he would take all the responsibility alone.
flare
This bombing operation went smoothly, exactly as Li Mei expected. After 's fire attack on Tokyo 20 hours, the 317 B-29 bombers came over Nagoya and successfully bombed the local aircraft manufacturing center successfully, and a large fire immediately ignited on the ground. A few days later, the US military dispatched 300 bombers to the sky above Osaka , and threw a total of 1,700 tons of incendiary bombs. The 20.7 square kilometers of buildings on the ground were all destroyed within three hours. After , the US military successively bombed all major, medium and small cities in Japan.
During the bombing process of the US military, many Tokyo citizens wanted to escape to other places due to panic, but Li Mei sent their pilots to throw many warning leaflets to the ground, which said the next place they will bomb. This kind of thing made everyone even more frightened. For safety, the number of people who fled to the countryside by reached millions, which led to a significant reduction in the attendance rate of factory workers in all cities, and once paralyzed the economy of these cities during that period.
Fire Attack Tokyo
Sneak Attack on Pearl Harbor
The reason why the US military carried out such a large-scale bombing against Japan was actually because they avenged the revenge of Pearl Harbor before. This incident is also called the craziest battle of revenge in American history. Pearl Harbor incident was an incident planned by Japan during World War II to attack Pearl Harbor, the US Pacific Navy Fleet base. At the same time, 's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was also the fuse of the outbreak of in World War II and 's Pacific War.
The Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbor in order to eliminate the US Navy, the main force on Pacific , and also wanted to attack the morale of US soldiers.1931 After the Japanese army began to invade and expand foreign countries, they first occupied the three northeastern provinces of our country. Some interests gradually expanded, so they began to plan to attack Pearl Harbor. wanted to gain greater benefits from the United States. Japan even conducted very strict training on Japanese Navy for this raid.
Pearl Harbor incident
In that incident, the Japanese navy successfully bombed all the US military airports on Oahu , and many American ships anchored in Pearl Harbor. Moreover, all the US warships were destroyed, and only the surviving few could take off. And in that battle, more than 2,000 Americans were unfortunately killed, and thousands of Americans were unfortunately killed on the Alexander battleship that was sunk under attack and explosion. The incident of
sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was very decisive because they did not sink American warships as planned, and it also means that the era of the decisive battle of the large battleship has passed, and it directly declared the outbreak of the Pacific War. After that, the United States and Britain officially declared war on Japan. Due to the huge losses caused to the United States, also called on the people to remember this day of great shame and humiliation. The scope of World War II has expanded even more. In order to commemorate the failure of the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the United States specially designated that day as National Shame Day.
sneak attack on Pearl Harbor
In history, Japan has done not only the Pearl Harbor incident, but they have also done some very cruel things in our country. For example, the Japanese Air Force once carried out bombings in Shanghai, and strategic bombing was first initiated by the Japanese army. The location they implemented was Chongqing, my country. The US military's incident this time is just to treat the person's body with his own way. Li Mei even said in person that they are not guilty and that Japan has always been the ones that should apologize.
This is what Japan should be punished, they should reflect on the wrong things they have done. Many netizens also said that the Japanese deserved the bombing in Tokyo! What do you think? You can leave a message in the comment area to discuss.
