On March 9, 1945, the sleeping citizens of Tokyo, Japan, were awakened by sharp air defense sirens, because Japan was often bombed by the American army in the later stages of the war, so the sleeping citizens of Tokyo were not impressed, believing that American planes often failed to drop targets in the dark, and most of the bombs would fall on the open ground. What the Tokyoites don't know is that American General Li Mei does not play cards according to the routine, and on this day the Americans prepared for them not an aerial bomb, but a solidified incendiary bomb that can be burned by water that cannot be extinguished by stones.
When more than half a million incendiary bombs weighing seven kilograms fell from the sky, the wooden houses of Tokyo residents were on the ground, and the raging fire burned so that the Japanese could not hide, and the Japanese cried and cried out to the mother and the ghost. The massive number of incendiary bombs scorched the air in Tokyo, and by little time Tokyo was highly deprived of oxygen, and tens of thousands of people were suffocated in Japanese air raid shelters. The Japanese, who had nowhere to escape, jumped into the Tokyo River in a panic, but the water of the Tokyo River was boiling under the strong combustion of incendiary bombs, and the Japanese who jumped into the boiling water with the hope of escape were all cooked alive.
Commander of the U.S. Twenty-First Bomber Force, Curtis. General Li Mei was the advocate and implementer of the burning of Tokyo, Li Mei was a young and outstanding general, who was promoted to major general in his thirties, which was extremely rare in the US army where the generals were like clouds, and Li Mei was the youngest general at that time. In 1945, the Japanese army lost the Pacific War obviously, and the victory of the sky was completely tilted to the Side of the United States. However, Japan's fanatical militarism is not willing to fail, and not only is it clamoring for "one hundred million jade fragments," but Japan's domestic military industry is still working overtime to produce weapons and send them to the front line in a steady stream.
Although the US military crushed the Japanese army in the Pacific theater and marched all the way, the closer it was to the Japanese mainland, the more stubborn the resistance encountered by the US military, and the battle of Okinawa killed as many as 80,000 people, which was unacceptable to the Americans. The U.S. military desperately needed a strategic strike that prompted Japan to raise its hand and surrender as soon as possible. In January 1945, Li Mei, who commanded operations in the Chinese theater, was urgently recalled to Tokyo, and Li Mei had commanded fighter jets to burn Japanese garrisons in Wuhan, China, and the US military top brass believed that this tactic could also be used on the Japanese mainland.
After detailed research, the reason why the Japanese military industry is still in normal production, Li Mei believes that Japan's handicraft industry is developed, Japan's military enterprises are scattered in Japanese family workshops to assemble, and the houses of Japanese residents are mostly flammable wooden structures. To this end, Li Mei formulated the incendiary bombs to be mounted on the newly developed superfortress B29 strategic bomber, and Li Mei asked the mechanics to remove all the self-defense weapons on the aircraft, and the fuel was also accurately calculated in order to mount as many incendiary bombs as possible.
On March 9, 1945, 334 B29 strategic bombers made a long-distance attack from Guam to Tokyo. When the B29 arrived over Tokyo, it dropped bombs at will to empty the magazine and carry out indiscriminate Japanese bombing in China. Whether you are a military target or an ordinary Japanese resident, you were burned by the carpet bombing of the US military. The Japanese who have been doing evil in China for many years have also paid the taste of their families being destroyed and their wives scattered. Since Japan is also bombing civilians indiscriminately in China, now that Japan has killed civilians by the US military, it is not easy to mention any humanitarian protests, only to swallow them in the stomach.
On March 9, 1945, the B29 bombers dropped more than 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs, and the center of Tokyo was razed to the ground, and the US military burned Japan for the first time, killing 100,000 recalcitrant Japanese on the spot, leaving millions of people homeless, destroying a large number of military enterprises, and drastically reducing the output of aircraft and tanks. What made the Japanese collapse was that Li Mei's burning of Tokyo was just a small test, as the Islands in the Pacific Were occupied by the US military one after another, the B29 flew closer and closer to Japan, and the cities that the US bombers could fly to were basically grilled by Li Mei. Li Mei's burning of the Japanese mainland greatly shortened the time for the Japanese to surrender.
