"It would be a mistake to think that the atomic bomb determined Japan's fate. Japan's defeat was a foregone conclusion before the first atomic bomb was dropped. However, there is no doubt that the dropping of the atomic bomb served as a "catalyst" in prompting Japan's rapid surrender. (Churchill's assessment of Japan's defeat)
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Around the struggle for Guadalcanal, the US army and the Japanese army have used all means, and the Japanese army that has fallen into the inferior position even desperately carries out a death charge in the hope that the US army will die together, which can see how tragic and anxious the Guadalcanal Campaign is, but around the entire Pacific War, the Pacific War is ultimately a maritime war, and only by winning the final victory in the naval battle can victory be achieved, and the ultimate purpose of the scramble around the island is only one, that is, to serve the naval war.
▲Old photos of the Battle of Guadalcanal
Even if many islands are seized and a large number of airfields are built on these islands, but the aircraft on these islands can only be passive defense, the role of these islands is to support and defend, not to attack and expand, and in the Second World War, because the weapons of anti-aircraft carriers are not yet developed, aircraft carriers can be said to be the same as the existence of ocean overlords, aircraft carriers because of their own mobility, it plays the role of moving islands, aircraft carriers with carrier-based aircraft can attack everywhere, fire everywhere, This is something that islands don't have, and aircraft carriers can be considered to be doing whatever they want in World War II.
In the Battle of Guadalcanal, Japan lost a lot of war resources, countless Japanese soldiers fell in the desperate death charge, became meaningless victims, in addition, there are countless ships and aircraft losses in this big war, of course, this is not the biggest loss for Japan, the Japanese army also lost its own pillar in this big war, that is, the commander of the Japanese combined fleet, Yamamoto Isoroku died in this big war.
▲ Yamamoto fifty-six stills
Isoroku Yamamoto can be said to be the most successful gambler in World War II, he used his own gamble to make his name successfully engraved in the history of human warfare, becoming one of the most famous generals in the Japanese army in World War II, but Yamamoto Fifty-Six, who has always been a good bet, also has unexpected places, that is, he did not know that his code had been deciphered by the Americans.
When Yamamoto Fifty-Six went to inspect, that day Yamamoto Fifty-Six was dressed very formally, put on his own white military uniform, as if there was providence in the darkness, Yamamoto Fifty-Six's plane was caught up by the fighter plane that ambushed in the air beforehand, this fighter shot down yamamoto Fifty-six's plane, "Imperial Flower" fell in this big war, Yamamoto Fifty-Six's death completely disrupted the original deployment of the Japanese army, so that the Japanese army fell into a state of leaderlessness. Everyone was in a hurry.
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After Yamamoto's death, the war continued, the war will not end because of the death of one person, after which the Japanese army and the American army began to carry out fierce and cruel bites around Mariana, this battle was the last big battle between the Japanese army and the American army, this battle of Mariana was like a great trench, it was the final moment of everything, in this big war, the American army could be said to have made a heavy bet, touching 14 aircraft carriers, and thousands of aircraft to cover the sky.
The Japanese army also broke the ship and made a desperate bet, and the Japanese army opened the apocalypse battle at the moment before sunset, in which Japan invested the last 9 aircraft carriers, and the last few hundred aircraft, and a big war was about to break out. Whether it is from the preparation for war, the amount of input, or the confidence of the decisive battle, Japan has definitely begun a doomsday gamble.
▲ Old photos of the Battle of Mariana
But although all this sounds very grand and tragic, all this can not change the situation of the war, in the previous battles Japan was not able to win the war when the situation was not so critical, and now to such a point of exhaustion it is impossible to win the victory, in this apocalyptic decisive battle around Mariana, the Japanese army has played the last few cards in its hand, and lost the most important key factors of the war, such as sea control and air supremacy.
After this great war, even the Japanese mainland was bombed, for the US military, its own materialism has won a great victory, one of the characteristics of materialism is the theory of fire coverage, without pity for the input and use of ammunition, for the successive bombing of major cities, Japan's productive forces have shrunk, the whole situation in Japan is about to collapse, and the United States has not the slightest scruples to continue production, between this and the other, the gap between the United States and Japan is getting wider and wider.
From this moment on, the balance of war had completely shifted to the side of the U.S. military. Because Japan's mainland is constantly being bombed, Japan has suddenly fallen from non-stop outward expansion to the situation that the mainland is to be bombed every day, this situation obviously caused a turmoil in Japan's political situation, and Japan's political circles began to constantly question the Japanese army, questioning why the Japanese army and military forces dragged the country into such a situation, in the face of this doubt, Hideki Tojo's blower will only continue to expand the scale of the war, because it has stepped into the abyss of war, it can only go to the end. There is no way to go back.
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This is also determined by the inherent nature of the fascist regime, but when the defeats on the battlefield appeared one after another in front of all the Japanese, at this time the internal contradictions that Japan had accumulated for too long and too long finally broke out uncontrollably, the front line was continuously defeated, its own homeland was constantly bombed, and within the Japanese government, secret calculations and competition between each other continued to appear, the so-called "jade fragmentation" strategy was just a means for the Japanese militarist government to transfer contradictions, and countless Japanese soldiers were sent to the battlefield , becoming a meaningless victim.
▲Tojo Hideki old photo
And at this time, the political turmoil in Japan was constantly bombarded by the American army every day, and everyone was questioning the strength of militarism, at the same time, those Japanese soldiers who were still in the Pacific theater had been in a state of being together, becoming a lone soldier, and what awaited them was an unimaginably tragic fate.
Resources:
Burning Pacific
History of the Second World War