On March 9, 1945, the US military sent 334 B-29 bombers to set off from Mariana Islands , and bombed Tokyo with napalm bomb . The bombing killed 100,000 people, destroyed 267,000 houses, and one quarter of Tokyo was razed to the ground. Because the commander of the operation was called Li Mei, it is also called "Li Mei Fire Attack" (Li Mei BBQ). The Chinese people applauded all of this action because Japan owed us too much blood debt, and Commander Li Mei was also praised as a hero. But few people know that Li Mei also owed the Chinese a bloody debt. Before bombing Tokyo, in order to verify the effectiveness of napalm bombs in actual combat, Li Mei bombed Wuhan, causing more than 40,000 civilian casualties.
In August 1944, Li Mei was transferred from Europe to China and served as commander of the 20th Bomber Command. As soon as he took office, the captain of " Flying Tigers " came to him, hoping that Li Mei could support his plan. What plan? Bomb Wuhan!
Jiang kept silent about this plan and ordered Chen Cheng to assist in cooperation. Jiang never cared about the possible major civilian casualties. The previous garden mouth broke the dam and Changsha Burning City had done it.
According to the Wuhan City Chronicle, "...a large number of bombs were dropped between Yiyuan Road and Wuma Road in Hankou, and they were blown up from the riverside to the railway. The bombed area was about 15 square kilometers and the buildings along the way turned into rubble. "The fire burned for three days and three nights, and most of the city center of Hankou was turned into ruins. Until December 1945, it was still a white land, with more than 40,000 civilians killed and killed in the bombing, of which the death toll was about 25,000. Li Mei was very satisfied with the effect of the incendiary bomb and laughed happily at the photo of scorched earth.
