With the popularity of the TV series "Bright Sword", many viewers were deeply impressed by the combat style of the Yamamoto special attack team in the play, in fact, the prototype of this Japanese army came from the Japanese airborne troops.
During World War II, airborne combat as a new combat style began to be widely used on the battlefield, and the world's great powers have successively set up their own airborne troops. When it saw the fruitful results of the airborne troops of other countries, Japan was not far behind and established the airborne troops in 1940.
Poor training state and environment
The airborne units were immediately formed and split in two, under the Army Aviation Corps and marine corps. Due to the backward military equipment, the tactical technology of the airborne troops is basically at the original point, and the basic airborne training such as jumping towers is carried out by using amusement park facilities, and the focus of the assessment of paratroopers is still the shooting and assassination of infantry.
In January 1941, the Japanese Army and Navy set up airborne training teams at the Hamamatsu Flight School and the Naval Base, sending "elite troops" to the German Paratrooper School to study, and on the other hand sending people to ask German airborne experts to teach, and then expanding the airborne training team into a paratrooper brigade and a special marine corps. In September 1941, after much pleading, Japan finally got the airborne equipment provided by Germany, and the airborne troops entered real training.
The equipment problem was solved, and the teaching materials were also available, but bigger problems followed. Many of these "elites" selected from the infantry suffer from fear of heights or other psychological disorders, and even if they can maintain training due to the pressure of officers, they are often forced to pause due to frequent accidents.
It was not until the end of 1941 that the Japanese airborne troops accumulated experience in various accidents and achieved training results that could be used in actual combat.
Tactical techniques are the worst airborne troops
After the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan invaded Southeast Asia. In January 1942, the Japanese attacked the island of Sibers in Kalimantan. In order to win the war as soon as possible, Japan used the naval airborne troops to cooperate with and support the Marine Corps in this war, but did not think that this would add trouble to the war.
The first airborne assault team led by Nakasa Uchi took off in the early morning of January 11, and before it could fly, it encountered a thunderstorm, and the group was forced to reduce its flight altitude because the clouds were too large and the land and sea coordination was improper, the aircraft was fired by its own fighters, and the two transport planes were destroyed and injured. It was difficult to break through the siege, the paratroopers were ready to parachute, and just after jumping off the plane, they encountered a fierce attack from the defenders, and after landing, they found that the landing site was only 30 meters from the defenders' positions.
Because the weapons were delivered separately from the people, many Japanese paratroopers who landed by chance could not find the weapons and had to wait for death, with a casualty rate of up to 60%. Later, due to the poor tactical coordination of the Japanese airborne troops, when attacking the enemy airfield, they did not find that the target had been occupied by their own side, which once again caused major accidental injuries.
Compared with the Navy airborne troops, the Army airborne troops are not much better. In the operation in Burma, the Japanese army launched an airborne operation, because of the dark weather, the Zero fighter group slid into the runway and just took off, but collided head-on with 2 Hundred reconnaissance aircraft that identified the wrong direction, and the flames soared into the sky, and other aircraft, vigilance detachments and field staff who had not yet taken off nearby were all buried in the sea of fire.
After the emergency clearance of the runway, the first aircraft took off one after another, but due to the impact of heavy fog had to cancel the plan, on the way back, 2 transport planes accidentally collided in the air, one of the whole aircraft crashed, after the other crashed, the crew rushed to parachute into the "Savage Mountain", life or death is unknown. Another transport plane caught fire for some reason when it landed, exploding in the air.
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