Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day
The day before yesterday was the 84th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, and I had a very heavy heart, but all the videos and pictures about the Nanjing Massacre, I couldn't bear to watch. As a person who loves to write, I always feel that I have to write something, today, make a cup of tea, play the lamp, write this article, it is a little relief in my heart, nonsense is not much to say, start writing!
On the night of March 9, 1945, Tokyo, Japan, was still dark, some people were still partying, some were already asleep, and the whole city was still peaceful at this time.
But they never imagined that more than 300 bombers were passing overhead, and after a huge roar, the next moment the whole city immediately turned into a sea of fire. For residents living in Tokyo, this is the most painful moment.
U.S. troops bomb the city of Tokyo
The sky is filled with Mars, large pieces of dry wooden buildings increase the arrogance of this tragedy, every inch of people's skin is quickly eroded by fire, many people are burned into fireballs, they struggle, shout, the city is full of wailing, corpses are everywhere, its screams are tragic, its scene is spectacular, this is the sensational American bombing of Tokyo, Japan, which is also the world's largest and most tragic bombing operation.
The bombing lasted eight months, and the United States sent 334 B-29 fighters, dropping 160,000 tons of bombs and more than 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs.
U.S. troops bomb Tokyo
In just one night,000, the U.S. military destroyed 16 square kilometers of central Tokyo, burned 25 percent of its buildings, and roughly estimated that about 90,000 people were burned to death, and 40,000 people were burned to varying degrees.
This is just one city, and more than 90 Other Japanese cities have suffered the same fate after the Tokyo incident, killing and injuring 500,000 people, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless, and destroying 2.44 million buildings, which are as destructive as dropping atomic bombs.
In the Second World War, the people of all countries in the world suffered from war, but the United States remained neutral, sold weapons to various countries, made a windfall in the war, and became a superpower, until Japan broke the good dream of the United States.
In December 1941, due to the war situation, Japan sent more than 300 bombers to raid the military base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and completed the bombing mission in 90 minutes, with a great victory.
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
A total of more than 3,400 American soldiers were killed or injured, and 188 aircraft and several battleships were damaged, which was a great shame in the hearts of the old United States.
The next day, then-US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a speech of national shame and said that he would launch an all-out war against Japan.
Roosevelt delivered a speech of national shame
The United States officially entered World War II, and three months later, the United States retaliated.
On April 2, 1942, the United States dispatched 16 of the most advanced B25 bombers of the time, departing from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, to bomb the Japanese capital, Tokyo, and six other cities.
Because the fighter's performance is not enough, the endurance is not strong, and there is no impact on Japan, the US revenge plan has not been achieved at all, so the United States has thrown 3 billion US dollars to Boeing to urge the development of more advanced fighters.
B29 Air Fortress bomber
Three years later, the B29 Air Fortress bomber was born, it is also known as the strongest bomber in history, flying at an altitude of 10,000 meters, a range of 5600 kilometers, a load of nine tons, and everything is ready.
At the end of World War II, the Japanese were terrified when they heard the name.
This brother had vowed to completely destroy the Japanese people's will to resist with a destructive bombing without morality and to blow Japan back into the Stone Age.
General Curtis Lee May
In January 1945, Maj. Gen. Curtis Lee Mei was appointed Commander of the 21st Bomber Force, and Lee Mei, as the commander of the plan to deal with the bombing of Japan, studied the bombing of Japan every day.
Suddenly, Li Mei was keenly aware that most of Japan's cities were wooden houses, so he devised a perfect plan to use incendiary bombs.
The U.S. military launched its first large-scale incendiary attack on Tokyo from February 23 to 24, 1945, when 174 B-29 bombers dropped a large number of napalm bombs in Tokyo that night, burning about 2.56 square kilometers of Tokyo. This strengthened Li Mei's determination to carry out a large-scale night fire attack.
Incendiary bomb power
Li Mei reassessed the situation and came up with a major tactical change. He decided to remove all the guns, turrets, and ammunition from the bombers on his next mission (leaving only the tail gunners) to reduce the weight of the B-29 to carry more incendiary bombs, and to carry out night bombardment at low altitudes of five to six thousand feet.
As a result, it caused a fire to shock the Japanese people and destroy the small workshops of production parts and prefabricated parts scattered in residential areas, so as to completely paralyze the Japanese military industry.
Fire ignites Tokyo houses
In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, each bomber bombed alone in the air raid without forming a formation. Bombs are dropped first by the bomber guide in front, introduced into the target area.
The plan has left bomb crews accustomed to safe high-altitude bomb-dropping methods suspicious.
Li Mei found that the Japanese army was under-equipped for night combat, and Li Mei decided to postpone the time when the plan was submitted to Washington, and to assume full responsibility for the combat mission himself.
On the night of March 9, 1945, 334 B-29s stormed Tokyo from Guam, carried out carpet bombing in turn, dropped more than 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs, razed 41 square kilometers of the city center, burned 267,000 buildings, killed and burned 83,793 people, and burned another 100,000 people to serious injuries and 1 million people were left homeless.
Charred corpses all over Tokyo
On March 10, 1945, the U.S. military sent 334 B-29 bombers from the Mariana Islands to bomb Tokyo again for 2 hours using napalm bombs, each carrying six to eight tons of incendiary bombs, with a burning area of up to 6,500 square meters.
At 24:15, two navigation planes arrived over Tokyo and dropped flares in the Shimomachi area of the intended target area, followed by incendiary bombs to indicate targets for subsequent aircraft. A large number of bombers then entered at individual intervals to drop incendiary bombs, and the fire spread rapidly.
Tokyo is devastated
That night, a fire whirlwind appeared in Tokyo (the scorching air waves caused by the fire formed a strong convective wind with the cold air), and 334 B-29s dropped more than 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs, generating enough heat to cause all combustible materials (including human bodies) in the city to burn.
Nearly 41 square kilometers were burned down, mainly to the east of the Imperial Palace, and about a quarter of Tokyo was razed to the ground, of which 18% were industrial areas, 63% were commercial areas, and the rest were residential areas.
All 22 planned industrial targets were destroyed and more than 267,000 buildings were burned. In the air raid, 9 B-29s were shot down, 5 were seriously wounded and forced to land on the sea, and 42 injured bombers and the rest of the bombers returned safely to the base.
Tokyo became an empty city
More than 300 B29 bombers dropped 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs in just two hours.
This kind of incendiary bomb is a napalm specially developed by the US military to burn napalm after the explosion, just like the original pulp mixed with glue, which cannot be shaken off, but also in order to increase the power of the incendiary bomb, and even more fiercely, it also specially throws the white phosphorus that assists combustion.
Burnt citizens of Tokyo
The fire took advantage of the wind, and the whole of Tokyo was plunged into a sea of fire, and even a tornado of flames appeared.
Tokyo is full of people crying and running wildly, and the surface temperature reaches more than 1,000 degrees Celsius, which is not an exaggeration to describe it as a sea of fire.
People are charred, there are no carbonized bones left, and the degree of tragedy is like hell on earth. People tried desperately to climb into the river, but found that the river was already boiling hot, and the people who climbed in were not burned to death, but cooked.
Ruins in ruins
The next day, the river had evaporated and dried up, leaving only Mori's white bones, and the fierce combustion quickly depleted the oxygen in the air, and the people hiding in the underground bomb shelters were suffocated alive, and the city of Tokyo had become an empty city.
The bombing caused nearly 100,000 casualties in Japan, tens of thousands of buildings burned to ashes, and more than 1 million people were left homeless.
The damage this time has exceeded the damage caused by the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. After the burning, it took the Japanese army 25 days to clean up the body.
Just a day later, Li Mei sent more than 300 B29 planes to Japan to make incendiary bombs still used in The Famous House. B29 went to Osaka, Japan's second largest city, and kobe, Hokkaido and other areas have not escaped the disaster.
In the months that followed, the U.S. Air Force dropped bombs at intervals of three to five. Later, incendiary bombs were constantly added to Japanese cities in order to fundamentally disintegrate the Japanese people's enthusiasm for war.
Flame tornado
On September 6, 1945, Li Mei baptized Tokyo for the second time and sent more than 500 bombers to March to Tokyo, Japan.
More incendiary bombs were dropped in the local residential areas than before, burning Tokyo and burning iron, and only a few hundred people survived in the whole city, no different from no man's land.
However, Japan's arrogance has not yet been extinguished, and a plan called 100 million jade fragments will be implemented.
At that time, the Japanese people were crazy, recycling coins from all over the country, and even the abandoned telephone poles on the side of the road were sent to factories, smelted into metal, and remade into weapons.
On August 6, 1945, the U.S. military had no choice but to drop the newly developed atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and the mushroom cloud rose, countless houses were razed to the ground, countless people were killed and injured, and another empty city was built.
The U.S. military dropped atomic bombs
But even so, Japan insisted on not surrendering, because they felt that the United States would not have a second atomic bomb. So, three days later, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
This time, Japan was completely unable to resist. On August 15, 1945, the Emperor of Japan announced his unconditional surrender, and the American bombing operation came to an end.
Since the bombing of Tokyo, the whole of Japan has been bombed repeatedly, and there is not a single piece of intact land left, and the Great Japanese Empire, which claims to never surrender, was beaten down and subdued by the United States, so that now Japan does not dare to say a word to the United States, and it is estimated that it will not be able to stand up.
Japan was forced to surrender unconditionally
War is fundamentally for people's selfish desires, but what it brings us is sadness, it is a displacement, it is the separation of wives and children, it is a human life, and it is an immeasurable trauma.
Therefore, whether it is the Nanjing Massacre, the Chongqing bombing, or the Chengdu bombing, as Chinese citizens, we all hope that the Japanese government will make a public apology for the innocent lives that died in the war.
However, we prefer a peaceful world, where wars will no longer be ignited and people will no longer suffer from the pain of war, and that only peace can make a country rich and strong.
In the 21st century, china continues to develop high-tech weapons, but not to use them to harm the lives of innocent people, but to better protect itself and not to let its own country and its citizens suffer such bad luck again.
Finally, it is hoped that the war will never be staged again and that peace will always exist on earth.
My generation is self-reliant