Both the U.S. and Soviet forces fought against the Japanese during World War II, but the performance of the two armies was very different, the U.S. army fought the Japanese army in the Pacific War, and the Soviet army fought against the Kwantung Army in northeast China. According to the reason, the industrial level of the United States at that time was not low, weapons, ammunition and military equipment were also very sufficient, and the defeat of the Japanese army should be a quick decision, but after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the US military suffered extremely heavy losses. Looking back at the soviet army's good results against the Kwantung Army, is the US army really inferior to the Soviet army?
Why did the U.S. military fight so hard?
In the early days of World War II, the United States advocated an isolationist policy, did not participate in any war, and only wanted to gain profits through the sale of arms. As Japan consumed more and more resources in the war, Japan, which was in urgent need of more strategic resources, decided to go south to conquer Southeast Asia to obtain oil rubber. At that time, the Philippines was a colony of the United States, and if it wanted to conquer Southeast Asia, it was bound to provoke conflict with the United States. Given the scarcity of resources, Japan, even though it understood its stakes, launched a sneak attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet to pave the way for the capture of Southeast Asia.
After the Japanese sneaked into the US Pacific Fleet, the US warplane battleship was destroyed and sunk to the bottom of the sea, and the soldiers who woke up from the dream were suddenly hit by shells and fell into the water before they could prepare for battle, and the smoke billowed on the entire Pacific sea. After the battle, the Pacific Fleet was almost completely destroyed, and the United States sadly declared war against Japan. After the U.S. Pacific Fleet suffered a heavy blow, the Japanese took advantage of the situation to occupy most of Southeast Asia and obtained important strategic resources for supply.
Although the United States has declared war against Japan, the Pacific Fleet has suffered heavy losses, weapons and equipment and troops are very scarce, and the Pacific Theater is far from the US mainland, and the resource supply has not kept up quickly, so the US military fought very hard with the Japanese army in the early stage of the Pacific War.
Moreover, when Japan launched the Taiping War, it was elite forces that were drawn, and the US troops who confronted them were not the first-class troops of the United States, and the disparity in strength between the two was more conducive to the Japanese army's continued advancement in the war. With the increase in military equipment shipped by the US military to the Pacific Theater and the increase in the pressure of resource consumption of the Japanese army, the US military seized the initiative to launch a counter-offensive, washing away the shame of pearl harbor being attacked.
Why did the Soviets win with ease?
It was difficult for the U.S. army to quickly defeat the Japanese army in the war against Japan, but the Soviet army was able to beat the Japanese army to a standstill, not because the U.S. army was weaker than the Soviet army, but because the two faced the different strength of the Japanese army. After the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, it launched an army of 1.5 million to fight against the 700,000 Kwantung Army stationed in northeast China, and the Kwantung Army suffered a crushing defeat and hundreds of thousands of soldiers were captured. In terms of strength, the Soviets had already crushed the Japanese army and gained most of the advantage. The opposing Japanese army is not only insufficient in strength, but also has poor combat quality and insufficient weapons and equipment.
After Japan launched the Pacific War, it drew a large number of elite Kwantung Army from the northeast, and when the Soviet army announced the war against the Japanese army, the Kwantung Army assembled in the northeast was an inferior army cobbled together by Japan, and its combat effectiveness was completely inferior to that of the Japanese army in the Pacific theater. When this group of Kwantung Army encountered the Soviet army like a torrent of steel, it was naturally defeated. Moreover, the Soviet army accumulated a lot of combat experience in the Soviet-German battle, and the combat strength and weapons and equipment were sufficient, and the weak Kwantung Army was vulnerable.
When the US army and the Soviet army fight against the Japanese army, there will be such a different state, can not only be analyzed from the surface, after all, the Japanese army they are facing is the Japanese army of different periods, the combat effectiveness displayed is naturally different, and the process of fighting is not the same.
The Japanese army from strong to weak, expanding the battlefield and lengthening the front line is an important reason for its final fiasco, no matter what role the Soviet army and the American army played in this process, their contribution to the victory of the anti-fascist war is huge.