The food of the commander-in-chief of the poorest military power during World War II was shabby
I remember once watching a Japanese TV series, the Japanese elders in the TV series taught the current juniors, he said: Now the conditions are so good to cherish, I think when we fought the war, our country was very poor! Is this true? I think that this word should be used in our country during World War II, when we all knew that Japan was a military power, and at one time it also made the Americans suffer a lot of losses, how could it be poor?
Japanese nationals during World War II
In fact, objectively measured by the comprehensive national strength at that time, Japan's national strength was not even as good as that of Italy, which was invincible. Japan's local steel, oil and so on are very little, relying on imports, after the outbreak of Pearl Harbor, the United States imposed an oil embargo on Japan, Japan immediately stupid!
However, in order to manufacture weapons, Japan took the iron products such as pots, windows, and pots at home to make steel, and many of the weapons produced were tofu slag projects. It is said that the Nationalist army used American trucks in Burma to crash all Japanese tanks, but the trucks were fine! Japanese aircraft can only flaunt their might in China, mainly because our national strength is even worse.
Japanese Tank Arsenal
After Japan invaded China in an all-round way, it found that the situation was completely different from what it had originally expected, and it was not only fiercely resisted by the Chinese people, but also destroyed the plan to destroy China for three months.
At that time, the whole of Japan fell under the control of militarism, and could only continue to expand to meet its development, and after the Japanese army was completely dragged down by China, the more japan became weaker in the later period, especially after the defeat in the Pacific theater, its resources and economy Japan almost faced a situation of collapse.
Japanese pilots in training
At the end of World War II, the Japanese military expenditure was put together from all over the country: even the emperor took out all his savings, the queen even donated her jewelry, and the female students sold themselves as the state to donate money, except for tens of thousands of science and engineering students, the rest had to go to the front.
In the later stages of the war, in order to fight against the United States, the Japanese are even more stretched, the following film and television screenshot is the food of the commander of the Japanese combined fleet, foreign film and television dramas are generally more realistic, I believe that this is in line with the national conditions of Japan at that time, not very exaggerated, even the commander is just eating such food, I believe that the life of the soldiers and civilians below is not much better!
The commander of the Combined Fleet, on this food standard, is described in the film before the outbreak of Pearl Harbor
In order to get oil, Japan invested a lot, but the return was not large, and then inadvertently the Japanese high-level got a good news, the original Japanese scientific experts after experimentation, found that pine oil after distillation, and then add mixing means of technical treatment, can replace oil as fuel.
This discovery made the Japanese military top brass very happy, and then ordered the whole of Japan to dig pine trees, and there were hard task requirements, so the whole of Japan fell into a frenzied tree digging activity, as experts say that the new fuel, until the Japanese surrender was not successfully made.
Japanese women after World War II
Therefore, at that time, Japan's comprehensive national strength was still a certain gap with that of developed countries. But its foundation is very good, the reason why it is relatively good is because their science and technology are developed, industrialization is mature, and they were the absolute boss in The Asian region at that time.