In this bombing, the US Air Force dropped 160,000 tons of bombs, killing 230,000 people and injuring 350,000 people. 24% of the houses in Japan were turned into ruins, and Tokyo became the city with the most deaths caused by conventional bombing in the world.

An image has been banned for more than 50 years. It is the most painful nightmare for the Japanese and the image they least want to see. This is the real scene of the United States bombing Tokyo, Japan.

In this bombing, the US Air Force dropped 160,000 tons of bombs, killing 230,000 people and injuring 350,000 people. 24% of the houses in Japan were turned into ruins, and Tokyo has become the city with the most deaths caused by conventional bombing in the world. Three bombings in 1949 also left more than one million people homeless.

So, what exactly is the reason why the United States is so ruthless against Japan? In this issue, let’s review the right and wrong in the United States and Japan.

Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor

Before this, Trump said in a speech that he liked watching World War II documentaries. The United States used 238 bombers to bomb a country, and the scenes during the bombing made him very excited.

Although Trump did not specify which country it was, it is obvious that everyone can guess that this country is Japan, and the incident he mentioned was Tokyo bombing .

Tokyo bombing

Since 1941, Japan's arrogance and domineering in Asia has attracted the attention of the United States. The US Congress passed a bill to impose an embargo on weapons and fuel on Japan.

The United States’ decision to stumbling Japan has made Japan anxious. Due to Japan's lack of resources and oil is completely dependent on imports, after the United States's implementation of this measure, their oil could only last for a few months, so they decided to declare war on the United States.

On December 7, 1941, the Royal Japanese Navy aircraft and micro submarines suddenly attacked the US Navy base Pearl Harbor , as well as the US Army and Navy airports on Oahu, Hawaii.

In fact, Japan has been planning to attack Pearl Harbor for a long time. After the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, Japan also wanted to get a share of the pie, and US Pacific Fleet also became their biggest obstacle. At the same time, the United States also stopped its oil supply to Japan, and the aggression plan was forced to stop.

In order to confuse the United States, Japan sent special envoys to Washington to negotiate to resolve the conflict, while secretly heading to Pearl Harbor to attack.

Japan attacks on Pearl Harbor

It was not until more than an hour after the Japanese plane bombed Pearl Harbor that the Japanese envoy came to the office of US Secretary of State Hull and submitted an ultimatum.

Regarding Japan's despicable behavior, Hull said angrily: "I have never seen such a despicable and shameless government or hypocritical and distorted document in 50 years of public office! Hurry up and drive them out!"

The next day, the American radio station broadcasted the news that Pearl Harbor was attacked nationwide. In response to this, US President Roosevelt was also very angry. He angrily told the people of the whole country that they would definitely give a strong fight back.

Pearl Harbor was attacked and the US military suffered a series of defeats on the battlefield, which caused the American people to fall to the lowest point. In order to revitalize the people's confidence, US President Roosevelt decided to launch an attack on Tokyo, Japan at all costs. After the incident of

attack on Pearl Harbor , more than 20 countries including Australia, Netherlands also declared war on Japan. At this point, more countries have joined World War II .

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

For Americans, Japan's attack on Pearls has become an unprecedented shame in American history. Whenever they talk about the Pearl Harbor incident, the word "shamed".

On the night of the incident, under the leadership of Roosevelt, the Senate and the House of Representatives passed a resolution to declare war on Japan.

But for the Japanese, 's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor was a forced one, and even claimed that they wanted to declare war openly, but it was only an accidental mistake that turned into a sneak attack.

Despite this, this cannot eliminate the American people's hatred for the Japanese. Soon, an unprecedented bombardment in Tokyo kicked off. After the Pearl Harbor incident, Jimmy Doolid of the United States launched a symbolic air strike on Japan.In the early morning of April 18, 1942, the fleet carrying out the mission was discovered by Japanese patrol fishing boats.

, which also disrupted their scheduled plans, but Doolid decided to take off early. Three hours later, they successfully arrived at the Japanese coastline, but the pilots were very worried about being fired by ground anti-aircraft artillery fire.

Dulid bombing on the first air strike on Tokyo

But to their surprise, the men, women, young and old on the fishing boat actually regarded their planes as their own, so when they arrived over Tokyo at 12:30, the Japanese who had just finished an air defense exercise thought it was the plane for the exercise.

They didn't know that this was not their plane until bombs fell. According to the scheduled plan, after completing the bombing mission, the bombing team should land at Nanchang and Lishui Airport in China.

, but the plan could not keep up with the changes. Among the 16 bombers participating in the operation, they landed in China and the Soviet Union for various reasons.

In the early days of the war between the United States and Japan, the US military did not have the advantage on Pacific battlefield and the air base was far away from Japan, so in more than two years after Doride led his team to bomb, the US military did not bomb and attack Japan.

Dulid air strikes Tokyo

When the United States successfully developed the B-29 bomber in 1944, the US military made substantial strategic bombing on Japan.

On June 15, 1944, 47 B-29 bombers took off from Chengdu and bombed the Hachiman Steel Plant in Kyushu, Japan. Although the US military was full of confidence in the bombing, the attack did not cause much damage to Japan.

But the bomber made many mistakes. Its refueling system had many faults, which forced the aircraft to make a forcibly landing at sea. At that time, only a few aircraft bombed secondary targets and launched a limited attack on Japan.

Dulide bombed Tokyo

Facts have proved that these bombers cannot carry out precise strikes on Japan. They caused some damage to the Nakajima aircraft manufacturer in the western suburbs of Tokyo after eight attacks.

It was not until later that the US military replaced major general Curtis Limei , and the US military achieved its goal of local bombing on Japan.

Tokyo bombing, dropping atomic bomb at Japan

1945, Li Mei was only 38 years old, but he has become the youngest general of the US Air Force and has also commanded the bombing of Germany on the European battlefield, achieving excellent results.

Li Mei is confident when she was ordered to bomb Japan this time. When he first took office, he had carefully compared the differences between Japan and Germany in industrial production models and found that Japan's industrial centers were not large-scale concentrated like Germany, but were scattered in small workshops in residential areas.

Curtis Limei

So the precise bombing during the day in Germany is obviously not suitable for Japan. But he also discovered the weakness of Japanese cities, which had poor air defense capabilities at night, and most of the housing was prone to fire in wooden boards, which also provided an opportunity for their bombing.

At the end of February 1945, the US military captured Iwo Jima , winning the transfer airport for bombing Japan. In order to complete the bombing, Li Mei boldly reformed the bombing. He ordered the B-29 to remove all weapons except the tail cannon and carry 6 tons of incendiary bombs.

All the crew members were surprised by these reforms. Such reforms are unprecedented and are also taking risks with the lives of everyone in the crew.

But Li Mei was extremely firm in this regard. He said confidently: "We want to burn those Japanese cities made of wooden boards! Let's set off a big firecracker that the Japanese have never heard of!"

passed the B-29 bomber on Mount Fuji

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On the night of February 4, 1945, Li Mei first used 70 B-29 bombers to conduct experimental bombs on Kobe , dropping 160 tons of incendiary bombs, and Japanese buildings and people were instantly turned to ashes. After the plane returned safely, Li Mei immediately launched a night attack.

334 bombers dropped nearly 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs in the eastern downtown area of ​​Tokyo, and 320 aircraft returned safely and lost only 14 aircraft.The first victory of

made Li Mei more confident in carrying out the next large-scale bombing. He directed the US Air Force to launch incendiary bomb attacks on 66 Japanese cities, and those cities were burned to ashes.

20% of Tokyo's industrial and 63% of commercial areas are all burned down, 1 million residents are homeless, and 185,000 people are killed or injured. In the ten days after

, the US military dispatched 1,595 aircraft successively and threw 9,373 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo, Osaka, , Nagoya and Kobe. Soon after, the 20th US Air Force also joined the ranks of bombing Japan.

B-29

The US military's strategic bombing of Japan lasted 14 months, dropping 160,800 tons of bombs on Japan. Under the bombing of the US military, 8 million people were displaced and homeless, and the industry was also damaged to varying degrees, and the national economy was on the verge of collapse.

Among the 98 cities bombed by the US military on Japan, Tokyo is the most damaged city and the city with the largest number of deaths caused by conventional bombing in the world.

On March 9 alone, the US military dropped nearly 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs, causing a skyrocketing fire. In some places, it even burned for 4 days and 5 nights. 267,000 buildings were burned and more than 100,000 people died of suffocation due to the fire.

Those who escaped from the fire escaped into the Meiji Theater, but were burned alive, and the dead were piled up into a 2-meter-high corpse mound.

Tokyo bombing

Not only that, after that, the United States also dropped two powerful atomic bombs on Japan.

On July 25, 1945, Truman made a decision that if Japan refuses to accept the " Potsdam Announcement " and refuses to surrender unconditionally, the United States will throw an atomic bomb on Japan. The Japanese authorities did not take it seriously after hearing this, and Truman decided to use the atomic bomb to teach this arrogant country a lesson.

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb called "Little Boy". The energy of this atomic bomb is equivalent to the energy generated by the explosion of 20,000 tons of ordinary explosives, . The scene at that time, if used in ancient Indian poems, only a thousand suns can compete with it. After the bombing of

, 60% of the areas in Hiroshima were destroyed. The death toll on that day was about 100,000, including the number of deaths caused by radiation poisoning, burning, trauma, etc., totaling 250,000. The city disappeared in the moment the atomic bomb exploded.

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The Japanese Emperor was heartbroken and accepted the conditions of the United States and implemented unconditional surrender. In this way, the Second World War was officially over. This unprecedented bombing made Li Mei famous in the battle and almost extinct Japan, but made countries around the world very happy. All of this was caused by Japan and tied up itself.