On the eve of the outbreak of the Pacific War, most of Japan's main forces were on the battlefield of invasion of China.
With the frequent victories in southeast Asia, the Ambitions of the Japanese Army were extremely inflated, and they wanted to dominate the world, so they pulled the front line to the distant Pacific.
In order to preemptively gain air and sea supremacy in the Pacific, Japan conducted a full-scale sneak attack and bombing of the US military base at Pearl Harbor.
This sneak attack caused heavy losses to the US military, but it has not yet reached the point of breaking the bones, but this is unforgivable for the US military.
Subsequently, the US military officially declared war on Japan, and the United States officially joined the anti-fascist camp in World War II. But many people do not know that after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military sent a general to carry out a devastating bombing of Japan, the brutality of the method is staggering, the battle led to the death of many Japanese people, a large number of buildings were burned.
According to post-war statistics, the bombing caused hundreds of thousands of Japanese deaths, and the entire area was more brutal than the atomic bombing, which was simply a purgatory on earth. This general is Curtis Emerson LeMay, and this is how the famous "Plum Barbeque" came from.
Li Mei is a firm believer in violence. He was silent, never smiling, and regarded heavy bombers as a confidant, known as the "Eagle of the Cold War."
At that time, Li Mei was transferred to the Pacific Theater by the US military, and his main task was to carry out armed attacks on Japan at all costs. Subsequently, Li Mei laid out a series of bombing plans.
In the data, he knew that most of the buildings in Tokyo, Japan, were made of oil and wood, and the firefighting was not doing well, so he ordered the use of incendiary bombs to bomb Japan.
As planned, a large number of bombers carrying a large amount of liquid from explosive incendiary bombs were thrown to the Japanese mainland, and after the incendiary bombs exploded and splashed on the oil trees, the fire began to burn, and even water could not be extinguished, and Japan could not do anything about the fire.
Historical records record that this "Li Mei Barbecue" turned Tokyo, Japan into a sea of fire.
On the night of September-10, 1945, the U.S. military dispatched 334 B-29 bombers, dropped more than 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs, bombed 96 Japanese cities, caused 100,000 Casualties in Japan (it took Japan 25 days to remove the charred remains at that time), and destroyed 63% of Tokyo's commercial areas and 20% of its industrial areas (including 22 Tokyo Arsenals).
It can be said that the losses caused by this bombing are quite heavy for Japan, which is also a factor in Japan's early surrender in World War II.
Today, Japan says nothing about the bombing, which is a humiliating nightmare in Japan's heart.