HCB Chapter 786: Repeated Ravage
Chapter 786: Repeated Ravage
On the evening of May 29, 29, more than 29 B- heavy bombers of the U.S. Air Force once again visited the sky over Tokyo. This time, each B- heavy bomber of the U.S. Air Force carried six tons of incendiary bombs. More than B- heavy bombers flew low along the Tianhe River in the east corner of Tokyo, Japan, and took turns bombing Tokyo for two and a half hours.
More than 29 B-29 heavy bombers of the United States Air Force dropped all the incendiary bombs they carried on the densely populated areas of Tokyo, Japan, reducing everything within the square kilometers of Tokyo, Japan to ashes. Even the more than B- heavy bombers of the United States Air Force returning from the bombing mission could see the flames rising from the city of Tokyo from the Pacific Ocean kilometers away.
There were even several fires caused by incendiary bombs in Tokyo that continued to burn for four days before slowly being extinguished. The bombing by the United States Air Force caused tens of thousands of people in Tokyo, Japan, to suffocate to death because the oxygen in the air was depleted by the fires caused by the incendiary bombs. The low-lying areas of Tokyo were hit hardest.
People in Tokyo who were on fire or short of oxygen jumped into the river to survive. As a result, the Sumida River was filled with charcoal-black corpses. When the United States B-29 heavy bombers were bombing, the people in Tokyo rushed to hide in the sturdy Meiji-za Theater to avoid the bombing. As a result, after the bombing by the United States Air Force ended, the bodies of the people who died of suffocation in the Meiji-za Theater were piled up on top of each other, reaching a height of two meters.
At this time, Japan's air defense force had been completely destroyed by the United States Air Force. The United States' planes could almost fly freely in the skies over Japan. In addition, the Japanese government had only nine doctors and eleven nurses left in Tokyo, which made Tokyo's medical institutions completely unable to rescue the people.
On May 29, , B- heavy bombers of the U.S. Air Force once again visited Tokyo and dropped tons of incendiary bombs on residential areas in the north and west of Tokyo. The fire caused by the incendiary bombs turned the high-rise buildings in Tokyo into a sea of fire.
From then on, Japan's capital, Tokyo, became a "dead city". After repeated incendiary bombings by the United States' B-29 heavy bombers, there were not many good houses and healthy people left to bomb in Tokyo, and Tokyo lost the value of continued bombing by the United States Air Force.
After March 29, , Major General Curtis LeMay, commander of the st Bomber Group of the United States, commanded the B- heavy bomber group of the United States Air Force to carry out incendiary bombing on major Japanese cities such as Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe for three months, causing devastating damage to these Japanese cities.
By mid-June 29, Major General Curtis LeMay, commander of the 29st Bomber Group of the United States, expanded the range of the incendiary bombing of the B- heavy bomber group of the United States Air Force to other small and medium-sized cities and transportation lines in Japan, allowing the fire caused by the incendiary bombs dropped by the B- heavy bomber group of the United States Air Force to burn across the entire Japanese archipelago.
By July 4, 1945, the U.S. Air Force announced that it had dropped a total of 100,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Japan.
From November 29 to August , the United States Air Force carried out strategic bombing on Japanese cities, dispatched sorties of B- heavy bombers, dropped tons of various aerial bombs, killed people, injured people, and caused % of the houses in Japan to be reduced to ruins. Japanese aircraft were destroyed by the bombing, and Japanese ships of various types were sunk or damaged.
In the bombing by the B-29 heavy bomber unit of the United States Air Force, Tokyo, Japan was the city most severely damaged by conventional bombs and also the city in the world with the most deaths from conventional bombing. In 29 alone, people died in three bombings by the B- heavy bomber unit of the United States Air Force. More than half of the houses in the city were burned down by fire, and more than one million people were left homeless.
The bombing of Tokyo and other cities in Japan by the B-29 heavy bomber unit of the United States Air Force paralyzed Japan's wartime economy. The bombing process of the B-29 heavy bomber of the United States Air Force caused many citizens of Tokyo, Japan to flee the city.
At the same time, Major General Curtis LeMay, commander of the 29st Bomber Group of the United States, also ordered the B- heavy bomber group of the United States Air Force to drop warning leaflets throughout Japan, informing the United States Air Force of the next targets to be bombed, making the Japanese people even more frightened. In Tokyo alone, millions of people fled to rural areas to avoid the bombing, and the attendance rate of factory workers in Japanese cities was less than half of what it used to be.
At the end of 1944, after a bloody and bitter battle and at a heavy price in casualties, the U.S. Marine Corps successfully captured Saipan. This also allowed the U.S. army to fully occupy the Mariana Islands, which was of extraordinary significance.
This place is more than 2,000 kilometers away from Tokyo, Japan, allowing the United States' air force to take off from the base on the island for the first time to carry out air strikes on the Japanese mainland.
On Tinian Island and Saipan Island, the United States Air Force B-29 heavy bomber unit deployed more than 29 B-29 heavy bombers. These B- heavy bombers of the United States Air Force were capable of carrying several tons of bombs at a time. After flying more than kilometers, they bombed Japanese cities such as Tokyo, Sasebo, Nagoya, Kobe, Yokosuka and so on.
After dozens of rounds of bombing by the B-29 heavy bombers of the United States Air Force, there were almost no intact buildings left in the sixty-five cities in the Japanese mainland.
While the B-29 heavy bomber units of the United States Air Force were repeatedly bombing the Japanese mainland, a group of B-29 heavy bomber pilots of the United States Air Force were undergoing special training at the Mendoza Air Force Base in Utah, the United States.
This group of pilots of the B-29 heavy bomber unit of the United States Air Force were strictly selected from various flying units of the United States Air Force. These strictly selected B-29 heavy bomber pilots were not allowed to ask about any other situations except knowing that they would go overseas to perform missions one day in the future. The United States Air Force gave the organization of these B-29 heavy bomber pilots the code name "Group 509".
而“509小组”中的这些B-29重型轰炸机飞行员使用的B-29型轰炸机已经是经过改装的，为了B-29型轰炸机使更快更灵活，B-29型轰炸机上所有的重武器全都被拆除了。