<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="55" > foreword: Now netizens have a strange phenomenon, that is, when it comes to the US army, it is still fire supremacy, saturation attack fire coverage, when it comes to the German army, it is an armored cluster, and when it comes to the French army, it is to raise its hands or flee or surrender; when it comes to the Japanese army, it is Japan's militarism, long live the charge, in fact, these are stereotypes. In reality, it is not a single battle but a showdown of combat systems. Today we will talk about the story behind Japan's launch of the Pacific War. </h1>
Pacific War
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="54" > launch the Pacific War, Japan has no choice! </h1>
In fact, for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese domestic commanders could not believe that they would do it. Yamamoto Fifty-Six in the Japanese mainland commander in the discussion on how to sneak attack the feasibility of Japan's Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto Fifty-Six has been resolutely opposed, as a stay in the United States for many years and in the United States as a Japanese military attaché in the United States, Yamamoto Fifty-Six knows the strength of the United States, don't look at the United States laughing now, if you provoke the United States, then the United States, a super giant war machine, will be launched in an instant, the terrible war potential of the United States will be stimulated instantly, and the major factories can produce all the materials needed for war in the first time. This is incomparable to Japan.
However, the Japanese commander did not have the foresight of Yamamoto Isoroku, and would only make a stupid decision, and Yamamoto Fifty-Six was also ostracized and suppressed for opposing this plan, and even threatened to assassinate Yamamoto Fifty-Six, and finally Yamamoto Fifty-Six was imprisoned.
However, with the opening up of Japan's multi-point battlefield, from the eastern battlefield that invaded China to the Vietnamese battlefield in Southeast Asia, the slogan of "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Circle" was even put forward; it was nothing more than an act of aggression that wanted to colonize other countries and carry out expansion, but the Japanese military beautified its wolf ambitions into helping other countries embark on a more advanced democratic republic.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
The opening of multi-point battlefields has put Japan's supply line under great pressure. In 1931, the United States directly terminated the trade agreement signed by the United States and Japan in 1911, which made Japan even worse. Washington's unilateral dissolution of the treaty has disgraced Japan and triggered a series of diplomatic actions that have made the Japanese feel very uneasy. For Japan, which relies on imports of resources, terminating the trade agreement is equivalent to choking Japan's throat, and its biggest material import route has been directly cut off by the United States, and even its own navy's life supply line- oil, the US military has directly cut off Japan.
As the situation has gone out of control, Yamamoto Isoroku's plan to sneak attack Pearl Harbor in the United States is forced to implement it directly. On July 24, 1941, Japanese troops officially occupied the Indochina Peninsula and colonized Vietnam. Two days later, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt directly announced the freezing of all Japanese assets in the United States, which meant that the important energy oil needed by his navy could not be purchased from the United States. After the United States froze Japan's assets, the United Kingdom followed suit and froze all japanese assets in the United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom and the United States cooperated incomparably well in action.
Although the United States cut off Japan's maritime lifeline, it was not fatal to Japan, because Japan's main oil import was the East Indies, which belonged to the Netherlands, and Japan could import up to 1.8 million tons of oil every year; so the US asset freezing measures could only be regarded as a self-destruction for Japan, which had already carried out oil reserves early, and also accelerated the implementation of the Japanese military's plan to attack Pearl Harbor. The real blow was that the Dutch governor of the East Indies directly ordered the freezing of Japan's assets, and then directly annulled the agreement in force, and Japan fell into a desperate situation.
Is6 Yamamoto
Then the war machine across Japan began to kick in, and even the naval forces that had been persuading the Japanese hierarchy to be patient were shouting for war like the Army. All the oil in Japan has been confiscated, every drop of oil is preparing for war, and who has left Japan with basically no resources. When Japanese Ambassador Yoshizaburo Nomura arrived in Washington, he was interviewed by the media and publicly complained that the Japanese taxis were now running out of gas.
The Japanese Government has even consulted with the United States, saying that if the United States Government stops providing armaments to Chiang Kai-shek, no longer builds fortifications in the Pacific, and solves the problem of Japan's production raw materials, then Japan can promise the United States not to build military bases on the Indochina Peninsula, withdraw from China after the complete settlement of the China problem, and maintain a neutral attitude toward the Philippines.
The United States did not eat Japan's set, directly refused, and a tough attitude called back to Japan, Japan must withdraw its troops from the Central Peninsula and China as soon as possible, the "Triple Alliance" treaty was directly abrogated, and the neighboring leaders signed a non-aggression pact. (Strong tone)
After Hideki Tojo came to power in 1941, Japan became even more crazy, and Hideki Tojo was a typical hawkish figure who was bold in doing things and even gambled on his own military victory. In the case of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hideki Tojo was betting on Japan's national fortunes. Japan, which was completely embargoed, had nowhere to go, and at this time the plan to sneak attack Pearl Harbor was once again put on the table, and Yamamoto Fifty-Six did not speak in the face of the resolutions of the high-level commanders, but resolutely implemented the plan to attack Pearl Harbor, after all, Yamamoto Fifty-Six also knew that Japan, which had been forced to this point, had no way to go, and there might be a glimmer of life.
Hideki Tojo
Previously, U.S. intelligence personnel had intercepted the call between Isoroku Yamamoto in Tokyo and Lacey in Washington, knowing that the Japanese were negotiating even if it was a smoke bomb, the real war was going to be fought, and the American intelligence personnel could not determine which area of the United States Japan was prepared to attack, so they sent a telegram to the heads of the Philippine region and the Hawaii region to remind them to be careful of the Japanese attack.
But the head of the United States in Hawaii did not pay much attention to this telegram from the United States, and Japan would sneak attack Pearl Harbor? No kidding. Then the American Pearl Harbor was blown up by Japanese bombers in the sleep of American soldiers, and the main battleships were basically sunk and suffered heavy losses.
As soon as the news of japan's attack on Pearl Harbor reached the United States, the whole country was shocked, and Japan was really crazy. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt couldn't even believe his ears, and the next day Roosevelt gave a national speech and then called on the entire American people to take action against the Japanese offensive. The Pacific War between Japan and the United States began.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="53" > Pacific War – The Death of Isoroku Yamamoto! </h1>
At the time of the Pacific War between the United States and Japan, the intelligence collection work of the U.S. intelligence forces on Yamamoto Fifty-Six never stopped, and in comparison, the dereliction of duty of the Japanese intelligence department led to the death of its commander-in-chief, Isoroku Yamamoto.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the US intelligence department was under pressure from the relevant officials, which made everyone in the US intelligence department hold their breath in their hearts, and the intelligence collection for Japan was increased by several orders of magnitude. On the morning of April 14, 1943, the Radio Intelligence Detachment of the U.S. Pacific Fleet intercepted and even directly deciphered an important Japanese military intelligence.
Admiral Chester Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, looked at the information sent by his men, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, followed by a laugh, what is this information? It turned out that this information was the schedule of yamamoto Fifty-Six, the commander-in-chief of Japan's supreme combined fleet, and Yamamoto Fifty-six would inspect his Japanese military base on April 18, 1943, inspecting the three naval bases of Barral, Shortland, and Buyin, and Yamamoto Fifty-six could not have dreamed that his trip had become an open secret, and the U.S. military was planning to assassinate himself.
At eight o'clock in the morning Yamamoto set off in an attack plane, escorted by fighter jets from Rabaul and landed in Rabar, then on a submarine to Visit its military base in Shortland; after leaving Shortland at 1:30 p.m., leaving Barral at two o'clock in the morning and heading directly to Bouin at exactly 2:30 p.m., then having lunch at the headquarters of the First Base, then leaving Bouin at four o'clock in the afternoon and returning to Rabaul.
This is the specific travel time of Yamamoto Isoroku is very accurate, and all of this is mastered in detail by the US military. Why did the United States decipher Japan's code so easily? Because two Japanese submarines accidentally sank in the past, the United States sent secret special forces to directly carry out the big guys, searched all inside and outside, and finally got a confidential document of the Japanese army, and it was this confidential document that allowed the United States to completely crack the compilation law of the Japanese code.
Yamamoto's itinerary is undoubtedly his own death schedule, which is still counting down, and the United States will never miss the perfect opportunity to face such an assassination. Of course, Admiral Nimitz was still very calm in the face of the perfect opportunity, and he carefully considered whether his successor would be more sinister and cunning than Yamamoto Fifty-six if the assassination was successful. Is the harm greater? After all this consideration, Nimitz made up his mind that there would be no second person in Japan who was more threatening than Yamamoto Fifty-Six, and determined that Nimitz directly ordered the assassination plan to be launched directly with a big hand.
On April 18, 1943, Yamamoto Beoroku began to inspect the three military bases of Barral, Bouin, and Shortland according to the predetermined plan, to boost the morale of the Japanese soldiers.
Why boost morale? Because Japan had some advantages in the Pacific Theater from the attack on Pearl Harbor, the war machine of the United States, a super giant, was completely activated, and the Japanese army was defeated in the Decisive Battle of Midway; and then the Japanese army was on a passive defensive position and demoralized in the Pacific Theater, so it was necessary for Yamamoto Fifty-Six to boost the morale of the soldiers of the whole army.
In fact, Yamamoto Isoroku's military inspection this time boosted morale, and the Japanese military department also had different opinions, among which the most fierce opposition was the commander of the Eighth Front of the Japanese Army, General Tsuneyoshi Imamura, who was worried that Yamamoto Fifty-six's inspection this time would be attacked by the US military and did not approve of Yamamoto Fifty-six's actions. Because Imabari himself was attacked by U.S. fighter jets during his inspection of the Bouin base, he was not safe.
But Yamamoto Isoroku was determined to go, and no one could stop his determination, Imamura's worries were worried, how could the U.S. military know about his itinerary? So Yamamoto Fifty-Six set off directly for inspection.
Yamamoto Fifty-Six wanted to use this inspection to encourage his soldiers and save the defeat that had been lost; the American army hoped to kill Yamamoto Fifty-Six, the thorn in his eye, and the two went to a common point under certain conditions, and finally Yamamoto Fifty-Six was assassinated and killed during the inspection.
Why did Japan have such a high death rate in the Pacific War?
Although the Japanese Army and Navy looked down on each other, the Japanese Army still relied on the Navy's warships to cover and support itself at critical moments. Especially in the major archipelagos of the Pacific War, the life and death of the Japanese Army depended entirely on the Japanese Navy's inability to give strength, and if the Navy did not give strength, even if the Japanese Army's combat effectiveness was strong, it would not help, it was just a lamb to be slaughtered.
The most difficult thing in the Pacific theater is the supply of materials, which is different from the Chinese battlefield, which can be solved in place in the occupied area, but the Pacific Ocean itself is a huge encirclement, and the Japanese troops stationed on the islands are a lone army. Without supplies from the Navy or Air Force, the Japanese Army would lose its combat effectiveness at any time and be directly engulfed by the menacing U.S. Forces.
In October 1944, the U.S. military launched a counter-offensive against the Philippines and air raids on air bases in Okinawa, Taiwan and other regions, blowing up almost all Japanese airfields and Japanese fighter jets, and air supremacy was directly controlled by the US military. By December, the U.S. army that completely occupied Leyte Island also won the Battle of Leyte Gulf and seized the sea supremacy, and the good guy Japan was directly hit by the U.S. military and lost the air and sea supremacy, and could only shrink on the island and wait for death.
Naval Battle of Leyte Gulf
After the Japanese Army on Luzon lost air and sea supremacy, it could only fight with American soldiers on the island for a land battle, but would the United States be so stupid? The siege would have starved and died of thirst for the Japanese army, who had no supplies or water.
The battle fought on Leyte Directly annihilated nearly 70,000 Japanese soldiers, and then directly attacked Luzon, the army and navy on the island had 287,000 soldiers, there was no logistical supply, coupled with the fierce consumption of the war on Leyte, the military supplies were even more seriously consumed. The Japanese army fought in the city of Manila for a month, and the Japanese army, which was defeated by the American army, left more than 10,000 soldiers' corpses and then retreated directly to the northern part of Luzon to continue its stubborn resistance.
Where is the material in the primeval forest of the Philippines enough to consume nearly 300,000 soldiers of the Japanese army? Coupled with the siege of the US army, from the end of the Battle of Manila in March 1945 to the unconditional surrender of the Japanese Emperor in August, in the six months of ice disease, 210,000 Japanese troops died of starvation, a total of 287,000 Japanese soldiers almost died only a few tens of thousands, if the Japanese Emperor did not announce surrender, these nearly 300,000 Japanese professional soldiers will remain in the primeval forest of the Philippines to become the nourishment for the animals and plants inside.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="52" > Why did Japan lose the Pacific War? </h1>
In fact, the commander of the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy, Isoroku Yamamoto, already knew the end when he started the war with the United States, and as long as Japan carried out the plan to sneak attack Pearl Harbor, it would undoubtedly lose. Even if the Pearl Harbor attack is successful, it will only leave Japan with a strategic buffer period of 2-3 years, when the recovered United States will maximize its war potential, and this huge giant war machine will be completely awakened, and the person who awakens is Japan.
However, Japan has no choice, everything is forced by the situation, and if it does not sneak attack the US military Pearl Harbor, Japan will die slowly, and it is better to change the motorcycle by bicycle.
What Japan wants most is not to go to war with the US military, but to promote peace with the US military and negotiate with the US military to achieve its own goals, but Japan has misestimated its own strength and the strength of the United States. What is Japan betting on? The bet is that the United States will negotiate with Japan after losing the Pacific Fleet, but the United States will not be accustomed to you, and if you beat me, I will kill you directly. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt gave a direct national speech, during which time the United States and Japan announced an all-out war, and you went straight to war.
It can be said that the Japanese military is dumbfounded, this is not what it wants, how is it different from its own script? This result is absolutely unacceptable to the Japanese military!
At the same time, from another aspect, the top brass of the Japanese military department during World War II were irrational, and they were all crazy, especially the Japanese military after Hideki Tojo came to power.
From a tactical point of view, the selection and assessment of Japanese officers is based on results, but the battlefield is changing rapidly, how can it be determined through examination results? This is typical of high scores and low energy. Coupled with the fact that Japanese officers committed suicide by cutting themselves in the stomach once they failed, this was not a sign of loyalty to the emperor, but a sign of evasion and cowardice. Many of the Japanese officers who committed suicide throughout World War II were grass-roots officers and soldiers, and the high-level officers basically did not commit suicide.
In terms of naval warfare, Japan is still stuck in the era of battleships firing at each other, having aircraft carriers but not knowing how to give full play to the advantages of aircraft carriers, not knowing how to use aircraft to reconnoiter operations, and is it not a joke that aircraft carriers directly hit the front station?
Strategically, the indecisive Nanyun Tadaichi was directly selected, which is a typical paper talk, and the simplicity is to consider too much but has nothing to do with the rapid changes on the battlefield, and japan's aircraft carrier formation is attacked by the face of the US fighter when its own battleship group is watching the drama from a hundred miles away, and it is impossible to help the encounter of the aircraft carrier formation.
In terms of strategic command, as an army commander, he actually put a large number of weapons and soldiers on isolated islands, so that the army can face the risk of lack of water and food at any time to fight with an enemy several times stronger than himself. It should be brought directly to court-martial.
Japan is a defeated existence both in terms of strategic and tactical thinking and from the comprehensive aspect of national strength, and after the United States dropped two atomic weapons, the Japanese emperor announced its unconditional surrender and the Pacific War ended.
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