Chapter 344: Japan Surrenders

At one o'clock in the morning on August 3, the wind blowing over the Pacific Ocean gradually lifted the fog over Iwo Jima. 【】 Hand-typed novel [-] Free text update! The 3o meter-high stone cliff at the northern tip of Iwo Jima still seems to be blowing a fishy sea breeze. At the beginning of July 1944, there were only more than 1ooo officers and soldiers, more than 1ooo family members and more than 1ooo students of NV middle school on the island who jumped into the sea on this cliff, of which 1o7 NV middle school students were killed by more than 1OOOO Japanese soldiers Jianyin. The wind here still smells of blood, and it seems to remind every American soldier who stays here that it has experienced brutal battles.

At Iwo Jima Airport, Colonel Tibbetts, commander of the 5o9hún group under the US Second Air Command, was a little nervous, and he and his crew were doing a final inspection of a class of Flying Fortress B-29 planes parked at the airport. Today he will go on a sacred mission, and with him will be accompanied by seven other B-2o Air Groups, who will go with him as cover for Japan.

At 2:27 a.m., Colonel Tibbetts moved the plane, and his call came from the conning tower: "Liquor Vortex-82, call to the Northern Tinian airfield conning tower, preparations are ready, please give the order to take off." "Dimple-82 is the code name for this operation.

"Wine Vortex-82, North Tinian Airfield Command Tower, take off east along runway A." A response came from the conning tower. Colonel Tibbetts pushed all the oil mén, and the plane began to run along until it slowly began to taxi. At the very end of the airport, driving into the good place, the plane suddenly flew slowly and began to enter the predetermined route.

The sound of the plane in the night sky was soon drowned out by the noise of the sea, and the people in the cabin felt a sense of relief. Tail gunner Bob? Cullen suddenly asked Colonel Tibbetts in front of him, "Hey, Colonel, are we going to drop the atomic bomb today?" ”

"Perhaps, Bob," said Colonel Tibbetts, and the two couldn't help but smile at each other.

At 7:35, the plane received a "Strett? An important message from the "Frusi" reconnaissance aircraft: good visibility over Hiroshima, cloud coverage below 3o, no interception by enemy fighters during reconnaissance, and weak artillery fire, it was recommended to give priority to Hiroshima. Immediately afterward, the planes that went to Xiaocang and Nagasaki for reconnaissance also returned meteorological reports one after another: The meteorological conditions over the target were good, and bombs could be dropped.

Colonel Tibbetts heard the news and conveyed him to the crew: "Guys, I have set a goal, bombing Hiroshima, this is our first goal, I will report our decision to the base" No one objected, this was originally what he decided.

At 7:2o in the morning, an air defense siren sounded over Hiroshima. But the citizens of Hiroshima are no longer indifferent to this air raid siren, they seem to think that the Americans will not care about the target of Hiroshima, they do not even want to enter the air defense dong, go to work or stay at home as usual, and some even stand on the rooftops looking at the US planes, and some people are shouting curses at the Americans.

Tibbetts on the plane felt a suppressed panic in his heart, and his heart was beating fast, but he restrained his emotions and slowly and solemnly announced to the crew through the microphone: "We are preparing to bomb Hiroshima, the recording equipment on board has been turned on, this is for the recording of history, please pay attention to your language." ”

Colonel Parsons, the random technician who was in charge of dropping the bomb, immediately unscrewed a green screw from the atomic bomb, and then skillfully screwed an almost identical metal screw, and the last circuit was turned on, and the atomic bomb was already in a dropping state. He shouted at Tibbetts, "Ready, ready to fire"

Colonel Tibbetts spoke into the microphone word for word: "We are about to drop the world's first atomic bomb." ”

At 8:15, with Tibbetts' order, the bomb bay opened automatically, and the atomic bomb fell, pointing the warhead at the target. After a slight pause, everyone in the crew was quietly waiting for the moment of the atomic bomb explosion, their hearts as if they were pinched by the palm of their hands, which made people a little breathless, they all put on protective shields, and the sound of heavy breathing was still very loud.

Suddenly, a very dazzling white light illuminated the entire plane, and a huge circular fireball rose into the air, and then the volume expanded dramatically, forming a huge mushroom cloud.

"Hit the target, hit the target, as far as we can see, it works well. After the bomb was dropped, the plane was normal and has now returned to base. Tibbetts's heart suddenly relaxed, and after a 12-hour flight, Colonel Tibbetts returned safely to the airport with his fleet.

The atomic bomb, codenamed "Xiao Boy", was dropped three days earlier than in history, but the result he brought did not change, and Hiroshima was reduced to a sea of fire in an instant. All 12 square kilometers of buildings in the center of the city were destroyed, more than 7o houses were destroyed, more than 70,000 people were killed and missing, and more than 1o thousand were injured.

At the Pacific Theater Command, everyone was waiting for the final result, and suddenly a person in charge of liaison raised his hands and cheered loudly, and he shouted at everyone: "Success, Dimple-82 operation is successful, hit the target" Immediately, warm applause and cheers rang out in the headquarters, and everyone was cheering for the victory of this operation. Obviously, this kind of weapon would greatly increase the rout of the Japanese, and MacArthur took the initiative to win over the commander of the US Strategic Air Force, Spatz, under great pressure.

MacArthur could no longer hide the smile on his face at this time, he walked to the map again, looked at it quietly, and ignored the cheers coming from the headquarters, but sighed: "I have done my best, may God bless you, General Wainwright, my old fellow" He said slowly turned around, and quietly left the place of the headquarters that was full of boiling enthusiasm.

Sixteen hours later, President Durroum of the United States made a statement to the world, declaring that the United States had used an atomic bomb against Japan, with a force equivalent to 20,000 tons of TnT. If Japan still does not accept the US conditions, a never-before-seen stream of destruction will fall from the sky, and a blow of destruction that has never been seen on earth will befall Japan. And once again reiterate the content of the Potstein Proclamation. The next day, all major cities in Japan saw the "Letter to the Japanese People" printed with Truman's speech dropped by American planes.

On the evening of August 5, the People's Commissariat of the Soviet Union in Moscow urgently summoned the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union, Naotake Sato. In the main office of the committee, Molotov, head of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, handed over the Declaration of the Soviet Union to a State of War against Japan on behalf of the Soviet government.

"This is a violation of the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty we signed, and the treaty we signed is still valid for 12 months, which is unfair," Sato Naotake said in a low voice at Molotov. But he understood that he was only humiliating himself, but he didn't care at all, Japan was already doomed at this moment, and the Soviets could inflict a massive blow on the Kwantung Army in northeastern China.

"Mr. Sato, the United States, Great Britain, and China demanded the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces on July 26, but you have already been rejected by the Japanese government. From this it can be seen from this that the proposal made by your Japanese government to the Soviet Union to mediate the war in the Far East has lost all ground. The Soviet government will be loyal to its obligations to its allies and declare its participation in the Proclamation of the Allies on July 26, that is, from tomorrow, August 6, the Soviet government will consider itself and Japan to be in a state of war. As he spoke, he said with a look of disgust as he left the declaration on Sato, who had collapsed on the ground, "This is already irrevocable, Mr. Sato, I hope I don't want to ask the guards to send you back." ”

"It's over, it's all over" Naotake Sato picked up the declaration of war in a daze, got up from the ground, and walked out dejectedly, he walked very slowly, he just wanted this road to become very long, long enough that he could go on forever without stopping.

On 6 August, the Soviet Army's three fronts simultaneously attacked Manchuria in the east, west, and north directions, thus opening the prelude to Operation August Storm. Due to a miscalculation of the situation on the battlefield, the Japanese assumed that the Soviet Union would enter the war in October, so in the first 18 hours after the start of the war, the Japanese generals could hardly give effective command, and there were problems with the communication of troops and command. In addition, the Red Army used transport planes to parachute infantry into major airfields and city centers, and through the air force to supply troops on land supply lines. Under the ground and air flanking attacks of the Red Army, the Japanese army was powerless.

The crew of the 5o9hún brigade led by Colonel Sweeney once again came to the sky over the Japanese mainland, and the visibility today was as clear as before, the fog was blown away by the sea breeze early, and the visibility was very high. However, he was hit by dense high-shell artillery fire on the ground of Xiaocang, and Colonel Sweeney had no choice but to change his aim and fly towards Nagasaki. At 1o:58, the atomic bomb "Fat Man" broke away from the plane and fell towards Nagasaki.

Suddenly Nagasaki boiled over in flames, killing 70,000 people and injuring more than 60,000. The fat man's equivalent is greater than that of the boy, but Xiaocang is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the losses suffered are a little weaker than Hiroshima's.

On August 11, the Soviet army quickly defeated the Kwantung Army and Manchuria** with a high degree of mechanized absolute superiority. The commander of the Kwantung Army, Yamada Otsuzo, ordered the Japanese forces in Manchuria and north of the 38th parallel in Korea to disarm and stop fighting.

On August 12, Japanese Emperor Hirohito read the edict of the end of the war on the radio, announcing Japan's unconditional surrender and the beginning of a ceasefire the next day. The news spread all over the world, and the Soviet army and the US ** team accelerated the seizure of the Japanese occupation area, and both countries were fighting for the occupation of the Japanese occupation area, which was a crazy act of land grabbing.

Parks learned of this on August 13, and the news was passed on by the anti-Japanese intelligence officers in Shenyang, but the Japanese did not surrender and continued to occupy Shenyang and nearby major cities.

"***, the emperor of the Xiao devils has announced their surrender, why haven't they laid down their arms yet?" Guo Dahai once again brought a batch of materials for Parkes, this batch of materials was transported easily, there was no Japanese surveillance around, they all retreated from the surrounding places overnight into the main city, and waited and watched. Guo Dahai is now only in prison, and now the Eighth Route Army is beyond the reach of these places, although they have already launched the order of a major counteroffensive and began to fight with the Kuomintang for territory.

Parks just smiled at Zhang Dahai's complaints, these days, he is still quite satisfied with the other party, every time he delivers supplies, although it is not a lot, but it solves Parks's urgent need.

After Zhang Dahai left with a full stomach, Parks immediately returned to the station, and he said to the oncoming Welsh captain: "Let Lutz come over immediately, we will contact the Pacific Command." The Japanese surrendered, and just yesterday their emperor announced the unconditional surrender of Harry, and we finally waited until the time to go home"

"God," the Welsh captain suddenly laughed, and turned his head to the other side and shouted loudly, "George, hurry, come here, there's an errand here." Hurry, hurry"

Lutz carried the radio on his back and threw it at the two of them. He quickly set up the radio station, and then said to Parks, "Boss, tell me, what should I do?"

"Contact the USS Yorktown aircraft carrier fleet in the Pacific Theater immediately, the mission is successful, request for support" Parks quickly ordered, then patted Lutz's face and smiled: "The Japanese have surrendered, man, the war is over." We can get out of this place," he said, nodding at Wales, and then walked towards the generals, which was good news, for all the soldiers and generals who had been in the prisoner of war camp. And for the brothers of the assault company, it is also very good news. After so many days and nights, they were finally able to complete their mission and leave safely. Only a few of them were slightly injured during the operation. However, it successfully saved more than 1,500 Allied prisoners, as well as more than 40 generals, governors and ** officers, which is almost a miracle, and this will be the most successful rescue mission in the history of the US military, and the significance is far greater than that of the Philippine rescue.

Brigadier General "God" Willoughby could not help but widen his eyes when he received this telegram, and then there was a burst of ecstasy, for so many days he had been under tremendous pressure from General MacArthur in order to wait for such a telegram. The telegram was sent by the aircraft carrier fleet USS Yorktown, and they had confirmed that the assault company involved in the rescue mission was in the vicinity of Liaoyuan City, which was more than 200 kilometers away from Shenyang, China, and that they had succeeded in rescuing more than 40 generals, governors, and other high-ranking generals and personnel, as well as more than 1,500 Allied soldiers from the Shenyang prisoner of war camp.

"I'm going to report this to the general myself," he waved the message excitedly, and then walked briskly towards General MacArthur's office, he could finally get rid of the pressure of these days, and now that Japan had surrendered, that is, their rescued personnel and company personnel could return safely.

Brigadier General Willoughby pushed away the mén in General MacArthur's office, only to see General MacArthur looking at the map with some distraction, as if he didn't hear Willoughby pushing Mén in, and the orderly who drove Mén for Willoughby instructed not to interrupt the general's thinking. So Willoughby stood quietly and waited.

After a quarter of an hour, MacArthur turned his head to look at Willoughby and smiled, "Please be seated, Willoughby, it seems that you brought me good news today, right?" He sat down in a chair with ease, and then motioned for Willoughby to sit next to him, "Anything about the commandos and General Wainwright?" ”

"Yes, General" Willoughby smiled and took out the message, then handed it to General MacArthur, "This is the latest message, I got it here as soon as I got it, and they are all safe"

MacArthur let out a long breath and said, "Thank God," and then he was a little silent, and Willoughby didn't dare to say anything, just looked at him in a daze.

After a while, MacArthur nodded at him and said: "The Japanese army in the Chinese theater has not completely surrendered, and the Russians are desperately advancing towards Northeast China. No, first send a plane to pick up General Wainwright back, and I will let him participate in the surrender ceremony of the Japanese. The commandos and others arranged for a train to Chongqing, where we were arranging for a transport ship to transport them back to China, and their mission was over, and the war was over" After saying all this, as if he had suddenly become very tired, he leaned back in his chair and lit his pipe, and bursts of smoke enveloped him in the air, like a cloud of mí fog, which could not be dispersed for a long time

Major Parks received the order to stand by and await further instructions, which was also in line with his current thinking. And before he received the telegram, Zhang Dahai asked him to meet him again in his old place, and made a request, asking him to occupy Liaoyuan City before the Soviets occupied Liaoyuan, and to give the management of Liaoyuan City to gD, and proposed that as long as Liaoyuan was occupied, he would find a way to send people to send them all out.

It was evident that this was to use Parks to get ahead of the Soviets and the Nationalists, to occupy a stronghold near Shenyang, and then spread out from this stronghold, while they intensified their march until they took over the entire northeast. Parks has no interest in participating in these things at all, not to mention that he has nothing to gain at all, the Japanese have thrown in, he will go back sooner or later, there is no need to risk the lives of his brothers to attack the city, what is the price, he knows Of course, it is not Zhang Dahai who came up with this method, but his superiors and high-level personnel. But this time Parks may be going to let them down

Lutz had already received a call back from the Pacific Command, he raised his hands excitedly, and then shouted "God", and told the news loudly to the people around him, and soon the news had been known to everyone, the whole stronghold resounded with cheers, everyone hugged each other, tears flowed, they could go home this moment, they had waited for more than three years, too long