Japan at the end of 1944 was no longer as good as Japan at the end of 1941, and the once powerful Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy was now nothing more than a spectacle on the seabed, and most of the ships had sunk into the sea, and could only rely on the newspapers and radio to boast about the results of the battle, and become a cannon king. The Japanese Army, which prides itself on being invincible in Bushido, cannot be tossed up now, after all, most of the Kwantung Army, which is known as the "Flower of the Imperial Army", has also been in the Streets of the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia, and the "Flower of the Imperial Army" has become the "Scum of the Imperial Army".
However, the Japanese were not willing to be bombed like this, so the Japanese military decided to launch a counterattack, planning to use paratroopers to raid the American airfield in the Pacific. According to the Plan of the Japanese Military, they would send a paratrooper team known as the "Righteous Martyrs Air Force" to sneak up on the US airfield and blow up the B-29 heavy bombers used by the US military to bomb Japan.
Yes, Japan had paratroopers, and they also hired German paratroopers for training before the war, but German instructors said that Japanese paratroopers were the worst paratroopers in the world, so could this group of Japanese paratroopers complete the japanese military's plan? On this issue, we can understand it by looking at the training and equipment of the Yilie Air Support Team.
Yi Lie air stood up
In fact, the Japanese Army and the Japanese Navy have their own paratrooper units, after all, the Japanese Army and Navy have not dealt with each other for a day or two, and they will definitely have their own paratrooper units if the screws are screwed backwards. However, the paratroopers of the Japanese Army and Navy were prominently pulled crotches, and they were never invested again except for a few investments in Southeast Asia in early 1942.
The Yilie Air Force, which was prepared to sneak up on the US army this time, was actually the 4th Squadron of the 1st Air Advance Wing of the Japanese Army, and belonged to the elite paratroopers of the Japanese Army. That is, the kind of militarist fanatics who are commonly known as all-out militarists, thrown out and shot not more than a hundred times.
There was a reason for choosing this 4th Squadron, as they had one more "Blasting" skill than several other squadrons. In fact, this 4th Squadron was originally an engineer squadron, although it was reorganized into paratroopers, but the blasting skills could not be lost, and now they were selected to carry out the task of raiding the US army, in large part because they were proficient in demolition, after all, the mission goal was to blow up the US airfield, or at least blow up the US bombers, so that they could go to the US airfield to do damage became the best choice for the Japanese military department.
As for the quality of the soldiers, the paratroopers of the 4th Squadron can still be justified, at least much better than the logistics and garrison personnel of the US airfield, and in order to strengthen the strength of the 4th Squadron, 40 elite veterans from other paratrooper squadrons were drawn as reinforcements.
However, their commander was not necessarily very good, the commander of the 4th Squadron was called Michiro Okoyama, and his rank was Lieutenant of the Japanese Army, who belonged to the typical Japanese militarist and had a reputation in the Japanese Army, because he was famous for picking up his subordinates who had fallen from a high altitude and broken them piece by piece.
It is said that after these professional paratroopers, the Yilie Air Force was basically formed, but the Japanese military department also included ten agents in the 4th Squadron. These ten agents came from the Nakano School, the special agent training center of the Japanese Army, and the worst they trained were also a deathjourner.
According to the japanese military's thinking, when the Yilie Air Force completes its mission, the Yilie Air Force will be transferred to guerrilla warfare, and the ten agents have undergone professional guerrilla warfare training and field survival training, and whether the Yilie Air Force can survive in the field depends on these people.
All in all, after putting these miscellaneous people together, the so-called Yilie Air Standing Team was even completed. So, what about their training and equipment?
Ridiculous paratrooper commandos
After the formation of this Yilie Air Reinforcement Was Completed, its formation was separated from the First Advancing Wing and became an independent unit. Because their commander was Michiro Okuyama, this unit was also called the "Okuyama Force". However, the Japanese are relatively middle two, belonging to the congenital second disease, so the Yilie Air Standing Team also has a nickname called "Divine Soldier Imperial Team".
To tell you the truth, the secondary disease of this group of Japanese people is already in the advanced stage, otherwise the brain hole could not have opened so big. But compared to their brain hole in the name, their equipment and training are really brain holes.
If there were guns and uniforms, the Yoshinori air force was actually equipped a lot better than the Japanese paratroopers in the past, because this time they finally saw automatic firepower. In the past, Japanese paratroopers were equipped with bolt-action rifles, or simply deployed paratrooper rifles that could be split into two pieces, and this firepower configuration was quite unmarked among the paratroopers in World War II.
But this time, the Japanese military department was finally willing to equip them with automatic firepower, and half of the soldiers were equipped with hundred-type submachine guns and type 99 light machine guns, which were much more powerful than in the past, and everyone was equipped with dark green camouflage uniforms, which was the first in the Japanese Army.
However, it is useless to have light weapons alone, after all, their main task is to bomb the BOMBers of the US army, and the submachine guns and light machine guns have no effect on the B-29 bombers for half a day, so explosives have become their must-haves.
The explosives provided to them by the Japanese military department are adsorption explosives and strip explosives, the former is a piece of explosive with a suction cup and a 1.5-meter-long bamboo pole, the specific use of this thing is to adsorb this thing under the belly of the bomber, and then pull open the fuse index bomb. The latter is even more bizarre, this is to tie a strip of explosives to a piece of rope, the rope has lead drops at both ends, as long as the explosives are thrown onto the fuselage to pull the fuse index explosion.
If we talk about power, these two kinds of bombs are proper enough to blow up the plane, but everyone must understand that these two weapons belong to the pit people. That adsorption explosive is to put it bluntly, it is a paratrooper version of the Showa Happy Pole, and if you want to use this to blow up the bomber in the rain of bullets, it is estimated that the effect of throwing a few more grenades may be better.
That strip of explosives is even more pitted, not to mention whether there is a chance to throw this thing on the battlefield to the fuselage of the bomber, just to throw this explosive into the fuselage and circle around it is big enough to play such a juggling on the battlefield? The Japanese military was afraid that the lives of these Showa paratroopers would be too long.
To tell the truth, but anyone with a brain will know that this equipment is unreliable, and if they want to rely on this way to blow up the BOMBers of the US army, then the green smoke from their ancestral graves is estimated to be insufficient. However, this group of Japanese paratroopers has a relatively good brain, so it is true that they train on wooden model aircraft every day, and they do not consider coming back alive.
As for how to send them to the battlefield, the Japanese military also prepared type 97 twin-engine bombers to try to use such backward bombers to send them to the airfields of the US army.
Considering that the performance of this Type 97 twin-engine bomber has lagged far behind people, it is estimated that when they fly over the US military airfield, they will be shot down by the US military a lot, and it is obviously not very safe to expect them to land safely.
In fact, these bombers frequently had accidents during training, and many paratroopers died before they could wait for actual combat, and then went to serve their so-called Amaterasu gods, which was a typical death stifle.
But considering that Japan was already in a state of worse than a day at this time, it was not surprising that the Japanese military gave them such a plane, and they were not expected to come back alive anyway.
epilogue
Of course, the Yilie Air Force did not go to raid the US army in 1944, they dragged it out until 1945 to launch a deadly air raid on the US army, but at this time Japan was already on the verge of extinction, so their mission naturally ended in the failure of the regiment, and the so-called Yilie Air Support team became a joke. It's just that there is a story about the actual battle and demise of the Yilie Air Force, and that is another story.