0398 Bombing of Japan

Whether it is Wang Liang, Sun Weimin and Ma Xiaogang, they are absolutely on the right trip.

Benefit.

There are also the majority of netizens.

The whole process is live.

For them, in addition to shock, it is still shock.

The comment section has completely exploded.

The apes are frantically repairing...

Suddenly, Wang Liang felt a lot more relaxed.

There is not much time left for himself, and Wang Liang has been racing against time.

But today Wang Liang has found a qualified successor.

Fan Jianguo, this veteran, can deservedly take over this banner.

Qualified.

Absolutely.

As soon as he thought of this, Wang Liang felt relieved.

Wang Liang recalled: "1942 was the most difficult years of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the Japanese occupied Burma, thus cutting off the only material transportation channel for external assistance to China......

US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered: "At any cost, the route to China must be opened." ”

Since there is no passage between land and sea, only air routes can be opened, which is the famous Hump route.

The Hump Route convoy was different from Chennault's Flying Tigers, and to a certain extent, the Hump Route convoy was more difficult and dangerous than the Flying Tigers, which attacked the Japanese in air combat.

Wang Liang said: "Because the Hump Route convoy has to fly in the Himalayan valley, even in extremely harsh climates, it continues to transport Chinese expeditionary force soldiers from China to India, and then from India to transport back gasoline, equipment and other strategic materials. ”

"I'll tell you a visual statistic. Over a period of three years, more than 80,000 sorties were flown on the Hump route, and the US military successively deployed 2,100 planes with more than 84,000 participants, while on the Hump route, the US military lost more than 1,500 planes and sacrificed nearly 3,000 pilots. ”

Wang Liang thought that netizens might be more interested in the bombing of the Japanese mainland, and he personally participated in the bombing operation, so Wang Liang wanted to share it with you.

Wang Liang said: "In the early morning of March 9, 1945, 334 B-129s flew from the Mariana Islands to Tokyo ......"

This bombing campaign is known as the bombing of Tokyo.

As early as 1941, after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military sent B-25 medium bombers to attack Japan's oil depots, factories, and military facilities in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, and Kobe.

However, due to the limitations of the bombers, these bombings were only symbolic missions and did not deal a fatal blow to Japan.

When the US Air Force successfully developed and equipped the B-29 bomber, it was capable of carrying out a strategic bombing campaign that would have a substantial effect on Japan.

"The B-29 bomber reached a speed of 536 kilometers per hour, flew at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, and had a cruising range of 6,430 kilometers. The strike range reached 2,400 kilometers and could carry 9,000 kilograms of bombs. At that time, the Axis fighters, except for the Me-262 and Orange Blossom (not in service), could not reach an altitude of 10,000 meters, and even if they did, they could not catch up with the speed of the B-29. ”

"Luckily, my application to participate in this operation was approved."

From March 9 to 10, 1945, the U.S. military sent 334 B-29 bombers from the Mariana Islands to bomb Tokyo, Japan, using napalm bombs for two hours, each carrying six to eight tons of incendiary bombs, with an incendiary area of up to 6,500 square meters.

At 0:24 a.m. on March 10, 1945, two navigators arrived over Tokyo and dropped flares on the Shitamachi area, the intended target area, followed by incendiary bombs to indicate targets for follow-up aircraft.

A large number of bombers then entered at single intervals to drop incendiary bombs, and the fire spread rapidly.

Whenever he talks about this, Wang Liang is always in a good mood: "There was a fire whirlwind in Tokyo that night. A fire cyclone is a strong convective wind caused by a hot air wave and cold air. ”

Three hundred and thirty-four B-29s dropped more than two thousand tons of incendiary bombs.

Regarding the whole bombing process, Wang Liang didn't want to go into too much detail.

"The heat generated by this amount of incendiary bombs was enough to burn all combustibles in the city, including the human body, and forty-one square kilometers were burned, mainly to the east of the Imperial Palace, and about a quarter of Tokyo was razed to the ground."

"Twenty percent of them are industrial, 60 percent are commercial, and the rest are residential. Twenty-two industrial targets on the bombing list were completely destroyed, more than 267,000 buildings were burned, millions were left homeless, 83,793 people were burned alive, and nearly 100,000 were burned or choked. ”

For this set of data, Wang Liang remembers it very clearly.

Dog's day, finally retribution.

There is no need for sympathy, and the blood debt must be paid with blood.

When the B-29 bomber piloted by Wang Liang flew over Tokyo, he felt extremely proud when he pressed the button to throw incendiary bombs with his own hands.

"The U.S. military also suffered considerable losses in this bombing, nine B-29s were shot down, five were seriously wounded and forced to land on the sea, forty-two wounded bombers and the rest of the bombers returned safely to base." Wang Liang said.

The bombing was the most devastating non-nuclear air strike in human history.

The destructive power is comparable to that of the later atomic bombs.

After the fire, it took the Japanese government 25 days to completely remove the charred bodies.

"This is far from over, less than thirty hours after the bombing of Tokyo, our B-29 bombers attacked Nagoya at night."

Wang Liang said with a smile: "After 24 hours of repair, the B-29 bomber formation attacked Osaka, Japan's second largest city, using 1,700 tons of incendiary bombs. ”

"Three days later, Kobe was bombed again."

"In April, May, and June, the U.S. military carried out large-scale air raids on large, medium, and small cities in Japan."

The comment area that had just fixed the bug exploded again, commenting one after another.

"A tribute to the U.S. Air Force that bombed Japan during World War II."

"See? See? To fight an enemy is to subdue them, and show no mercy to them, and not to show the kindness of a woman. Look at the current attitude of Japan towards the United States. That's it! ”

"So until now, Japan has only served the United States and Russia......"

"That's a good thing to hear."

"Well fried!"

"Enjoyable!"

"I can imagine the expression of the little devil who is still aggressing in China when he hears that his house has been blown up and his relatives have been burned to charcoal. You always have to pay it back when you come out to mix. What do you do with the Chinese? It's not wrong to blow you up at all! There was nothing wrong with it at all. ”

"At that time, the island nation should have been blown up."

"No matter how much you blow it up, you can't get rid of it."

"Why don't you bomb the Japanese Imperial Palace? It's a pity. ”