In World War II, where the Japanese devils died the most, China only ranked second, but the first was a small country. After decades of bloody resistance in China, why did it eliminate less devils than a small country? What happened to hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops, and what are the secrets of it?
Today we will interpret that the burial place of the Japanese army is the Philippines. About how many people were killed by the Japanese army in World War II? In 1964, the Japanese official made a statistic, the result was 2.12 million people, and in the 1970s, it was done again, and the number rose to 2.34 million, of which the third place in the number of war deaths was the central Pacific Islands, including the Rohms Islands of Midway, with a total of 247,000 people, and the second place was 455,000 people in Mainland China. This is not counted as 46,000 people, and in the first place is the Philippines killing 498,000 people, almost breaking the 500,000 mark.
Seeing this data, it is estimated that many friends do not buy it, the number of devils we have killed in 14 years of bloody struggle is not as good as a small Philippines, is it deliberately mistaken by the Japanese, but in my opinion, this is really true, why did the Japanese army suffer heavy casualties in the Philippines? Or is there a reason? The Philippines is an island nation located in the western Pacific Ocean.
During World War II, two of the more famous battles fought on the mainland, but the number of casualties varied dramatically. The first battle took place between 1941 and 1942, when the Japanese 14th Army, to which Benkin Yaqin belonged, was successfully defeated by the Philippines, and the 130,000 U.S.-African coalition troops led by the famous American general MacArthur and the Japanese casualties were 14,000, which can be described as a complete victory.
The second battle took place between 1944 and 1945, at this time, the Japanese army was already at the end of the crossbow, and the collapse was only in the daytime, the Japanese army concentrated the main forces of the land, sea and air at that time, and the American army came to a decisive battle, and paid a heavy price of nearly 450,000 people.
At that time, according to the plan, the US army was to first seize Leyte Island, and then seize the entire Philippines, the Japanese obviously did not intend to sit still, so they formulated a good battle plan for Jay, ready to fight with the US army to the end, stationed in the Philippines is the Japanese 14th Front, the second, third, fifth fleet, and the size of the Army Fourth Air Force, which can be described as the first place where the battle began, naturally the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the Japanese army failed to hold on according to the plan, this sea throat. The Combined Fleet's four aircraft carriers, three battleships, cruisers, 21 destroyers, seven submarines were integrated, 288 aircraft were lost, and about ten thousand people were killed.
Based on post-war statistics, more than 1,200 officers and men were buried in the belly of the fish on the five search battleships alone, followed by land battles on Leyte and Luzon. At this time, the Japanese army had completely lost its air and sea supremacy. The Army became a living target exposed to the cannons of U.S. aircraft.
Leyte Gulf was completely killed with 60,000 Japanese troops. Luzon did not fare much better, because the coastal positions were all destroyed by American shells, and the remnants of the Japanese army could only shrink in the north and east of the island, and the landing American troops carried out guerrilla warfare.
From the successful landing of the US army on Leyte Island in October 1949, until the complete surrender of Japan in September of the following year, this group of desperate Japanese troops on the island, supported for almost a year, front-line combatants, plus logistics personnel and soldiers, during this period of time casualties reached 450,000 people, why so many people died, there are the following reasons, the First Japanese Army is not all died on the battlefield, there are many soldiers died in transit, what is going on?
The United States and Japan are fighting for islands in the Pacific Ocean, and their strength is naturally very different. In order to maintain resistance, the Japanese army could only risk interspersing the delivery of soldiers and supplies. When landing on the island, it was repeatedly defeated by the US military. For example, during the Battle of the Philippines, the Japanese 26th Division was ordered to reinforce, but the transport ship was sunk by American submarines in the middle of the road. Nearly half of the people of a division sank to the bottom of the sea, and it was difficult to reach Luzon, but they were told to go to Leyte Island for support, so they went hard, and as a result, they were attacked by the US Navy and Air Force, and then transported to the Japanese army that successfully landed on the island plus their own swim, less than 500 people, and more importantly, their weapons and equipment were long gone, and each of them was bare-handed.
By the end of the war, the Japanese 26th Division had only 16 men left, and according to statistics, about 300,000 Japanese troops and American troops fought guerrilla warfare, and they could not get external supplies, no supplementary bullets and grain. Soon after the war began, it completely lost contact with the outside world, resulting in a large number of non-combatants attrition.
The Supreme Commander's order to take effect on Feng Wen was self-employed, but what was the problem? Local food is not self-sufficient. It is also easy to cause the local people to revolt. Judging from the post-war reports, after the autumn of 1945, a large number of Japanese troops had only limited weapons and equipment to maintain sporadic battles, and most of the Japanese troops could only wander in the tropical jungle, without food, plus strict orders could not surrender.
These soldiers either died of starvation or were consumed by various diseases, and were completely self-contained, and the Japanese historian Teng Yuanzhang published a frightening figure in "The Heroic Soul Of Starvation". In the Battle of the Philippines, 1.4 million Japanese troops died of starvation or illness. These people were enshrined in the shrine after their deaths, and the average person did not know that their deaths were not so glorious.
On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. At the same time, Fengwen issued a ceasefire order, requiring all participants to surrender at the end of the month. Unfortunately, due to the large number of Japanese troops scattered throughout the island, it was impossible to make effective communication, which led to the entire surrender process lasting more than half a year.
According to the memories of the American army, when the Japanese troops who hid in the mountains and forests came out, they were as thin as wood, not as strong as a dog, and did not even have the strength to climb the deck, however, everything did not end in 1945, and the last Japanese soldier who walked out of the lofty mountains of the Philippines was called Ono Ikekanro, who believed in the fact of Japan's defeat 30 years later, and surrendered his weapons accompanied by the relevant personnel and returned to human society. Obviously he is lucky, at least much luckier than the 450,000 Japanese troops who can never return home, and today we will talk about how much you know about the Pacific theater in World War II. Welcome to comment and leave a message!