At the end of World War II, the US Air Force fire attack on Tokyo this campaign can be called a classic of strategic bombing, this battle brought a devastating blow to the whole of Japan, so that the Japanese are still afraid, today you officials will follow the small editor to see how the United States created this shocking "Tokyo bombing"! New friends may wish to like and follow it.
The Great Bombardment of Tokyo
We all know that the United States dropped two atomic bombs directly on their Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to teach Japan a lesson, causing the death of hundreds of thousands of Japanese people in an instant. In fact, it is not, and the real more powerful than the atomic bomb is the bombing of Tokyo in 1945.
On December 7, 1941, Japan suddenly and undeclared war, launched a sneak attack on the US military's Pearl Harbor, which made the US army angry, began a major counterattack, the Pacific War officially began, at the National Defense Conference, Roosevelt made a strong counterattack against the provocative demands of the Japanese, that is, at all costs "bombing Tokyo", through the meeting consultation, the US military chose B-25 bombers to take on this mission.
After everything was ready, on the afternoon of March 9, 1945, 334 B-29 bombers of the US 21st Bomber Group took off from the Guam base, directly attacked Tokyo, arrived over Tokyo at 1 a.m., and then began to bomb them as planned, because Japan lacked fighters to take off and intercept, so the US army could bomb at this time without any worries, and at this time, although Japan attacked the US army with anti-aircraft artillery fire, but even if it was fierce, it could not pose a threat to the US aircraft because of lack of accuracy.
Comparable to the end of the world
In an instant, nearly 2,500 tons of napalm in the air less than 1,500 meters above all poured out, and soon a "fiery flame" formed, Tokyo became a sea of fire, the central temperature was as high as 1000 degrees Celsius, the tram tracks and metal lampposts were all melted, nearly 100,000 people died, 267,000 buildings were reduced to ashes, the number of people burned to death alone directly exceeded two atomic bombs, in the fire, people's cries, roars resounded through the sky, and even the river was boiled under the raging fire. Or even evaporation.
According to the investigation afterwards, about 41 square kilometers of the ground that Tokyo was bombed this time was burned to the ground, about a quarter of it was flattened, millions of people were left homeless, and after the fire, it took the Japanese government twenty-five days to clean up all the charred bodies, and the whole of Japan looked like the end of the world from a high altitude. The losses suffered by the BOMBing of the US troops are also extremely small, and they are also very satisfied with this bombing.
Everyone called the bombing "Li Mei BBQ". Everyone praised General Li Mei for his "contribution" to Tokyo. In fact, it makes sense for everyone to say this. As the commander of this bombing operation, Li Mei had sent people to Tokyo secretly for field investigation before carrying out the mission, and after learning that most of the local houses in Japan were built with wood and other flammable materials, he immediately adopted the idea of incendiary bombs and conventional ammunition fire attacks.
General Li Mei
Born in the United States to an ordinary working family, Li Meiben joined the U.S. Army after graduation, became a second lieutenant pilot in the Army Aviation Reserve Force in 1929, and has performed many flight missions in combat, performing very well, and later became known as a bomber pilot. Since joining the bomber brigade, Li Mei has been thinking all day about how to improve the operational efficiency of bombers and achieve the greatest results at the least cost.
On each mission, Li Mei always studied and calculated, and finally invented the "no-evasion action" and "staggered" flight formations. It dealt a heavy blow to the Nazis in Germany. This time, Li Mei carried out another bombing of Tokyo, Japan, and successfully negotiated Japan's arrogance. After Li Mei returned to the United States, she was not only warmly welcomed by the people, but also publicly praised by President Truman.
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Although Li Mei's fire attack looks very cruel, it has to be said that it is simply very gratifying, compared to the heinous crimes committed by Japan before, such a punishment method is still a little lighter in the eyes of the editor, and these criminal Japanese people do not deserve sympathy at all. For the us to bomb Tokyo, what are the views of the officials, welcome to leave a message in the comment area below, we will see you in the next issue.