During this bombing, the aircraft factory of Nakajima Aircraft Company, the largest aircraft manufacturer of the Japanese Army, was completely blown up in Nagoya. Not even a complete pillar remained in the entire factory area. Also involved were
The Japanese Navy's Mitsubishi Aircraft Factory, also in Nagoya, also suffered serious losses. The entire Nagoya aircraft manufacturing industry was paralyzed.
In order to restore and establish these aircraft factories, the Japanese had to move all the remaining equipment and workers from the aircraft factories in Nagoya to Hokkaido and Southern Kyushu to avoid the almost endless war of resistance from the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
The big bombing is gone.
As for Nagoya, a city with a long history, after enduring five intensive bombings of the same scale, the entire city was completely razed to the ground. There was no longer a single intact building in the city, and all wired communications, water and electricity supplies were completely destroyed.
Disruption. All industrial and agricultural production stopped, leaving hundreds of thousands of surviving residents homeless.
As an industrial area, this city has lost all its production capacity. If it were not for the ruins of walls and ruins, it would be difficult to tell that this was once a prosperous industrial city. All the prosperity has been combined with the Japanese
The great ambition of eight characters and one universe has become a pile of nothings.
After Nagoya was razed to the ground, Yang Zhen turned his attention to Kobe. Compared with Nagoya, which is famous for its mechanical processing, Kobe not only has a considerable part of Japan's aircraft manufacturing base, but is also an important steelmaking, metallurgy, and chemical industry in Japan.
Industrial base. Its heavy industrial manufacturing capabilities are far above Nagoya.
After receiving eighty American B-24 bombers, one hundred newly arrived Stirling bombers, and fifty Hewlett bombers in early November, the Anti-Japanese Alliance gathered almost all the bomber groups it could muster to attack
Large-scale air raids were launched in Kobe and surrounding industrial areas.
At three o'clock in the afternoon on October 21, the Anti-Japanese Alliance gathered all 240 Stirling bombers, 100 Hewlett bombers, 120 B-24 bombers, and 50 bombers that could take off.
The B-17 bombers, as well as all the Ye-2 bombers that could take off, together with the IL-4, DB-3 bombers, and Wellington bombers, formed an unprecedentedly large bomber group.
They took off from four bases in Hunchun, Jiamusi, Mudanjiang, and Hulin. Under the escort of all the P40 fighter jets of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, they crossed the Japanese interception line on the Korean Peninsula and were covered by 16 electronic warfare and navigation aircraft.
then arrived in two batches over Kobe, Japan at midnight.
Eighteen napalm bombs were dropped by the six Wellington bombers acting as the lead aircraft, and the raging fires were used as guidance on the ground. One hundred Hewlett bombers and twenty B-17 bombers took the lead in dropping
200 tons of high explosive bombs.
Subsequently, 420 heavy bombers carrying thousands of tons of napalm bombs adopted the tactic of simultaneously dropping bombs at an altitude of three thousand meters. All of the nearly one thousand tons of napalm bombs were dropped on the city of Kobe. One thousand
tons of napalm bombs plus 200 tons of high-explosive bombs, one of Japan's most important industrial cities was wiped off the face of the earth at once.
While the heavy bombers were bombing the city, twenty Il-4 and DB-3 bombers were dispatched in coordination to suppress anti-aircraft artillery. A total of fifty Wellington bombers were dispatched to destroy the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery positions around Kobe.
, and it was completely blown to pieces.
These DB 3 bombers and Il 4 bombers, which are specially used to suppress anti-aircraft firepower, have been specially modified. A total of seven doors dismantled from the Lager 3 fighter jets and the Hurricane 2 fighter jets are installed on the wings and nose.
It had a Soviet-made 20mm machine gun and carried ten 50kg small bombs.
This group of bombers was specially designed to suppress the Japanese ground anti-aircraft fire and reduce the losses of heavy bombers. After a large number of bomber groups entered the Japanese mainland, these bombers were designed to deal with Japanese anti-aircraft fire. As long as there was an anti-aircraft gun position on the ground, they would immediately swoop down to deal with it.
In order to solve the threat of ground firepower to the bomber group, when the range of the strongest Wellington bomber was insufficient, the Anti-Japanese Federation partially modified it and installed armored fuel tanks in the bomb bay. The range was increased to
Nearly doubled, a full 3,000 kilometers, and at the same time increased the number of onboard machine guns on the aircraft to nine.
Although changing the bomb bay to a fuel tank seems a bit risky. However, the aircraft body is extremely strong, and the additional fuel tanks are protected by armor. As long as the aircraft itself does not go wrong, the possibility of the fuel tank being hit and detonated is almost certain.
Say it doesn't exist.
The two 12mm machine guns equipped with most Japanese fighter jets have poor performance and cannot penetrate the aircraft body, which can be described as strong. When suppressing ground firepower, anti-aircraft machine gun hits are useless. As for the various Japanese military equipment
Anti-aircraft guns are useless because they fly low and have large calibers. Small and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns can be directly bypassed by using their speed and sturdy body.
Compared with the IL-4 and DB-3, which have relatively weak armor protection, this Wellington bomber can be said to be made of pig iron and has almost become the main force for ground suppression. For anti-aircraft gun positions, the nine-twelve bombers on the fuselage are first used.
mm machine gun fire, and then DB 3 dropped the 50 kilogram bombs carried in a dive bombing mode to completely weaken the ground anti-aircraft firepower.
This tactic developed by the Anti-Japanese Alliance based on the experience summarized in the Nagoya air raid is quite brilliant. It takes a heavy bomber like the Wellington, which is tough and thick-skinned, and uses it as a ground attack aircraft. The DB is used as a dive bomber.
Three, IL and four cooperated and played a considerable role in the bombing of Kobe.
The number of bombers dispatched by the Anti-Japanese Alliance in this battle was the highest in 1942. However, not a single bomber was shot down by the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery group. On the contrary, the ground air defense positions deployed by the Japanese army around Kobe were basically destroyed as long as they opened fire. This
There were only nine bombers in the bombing, and they were shot down by Japanese fighter jets on their return.
Without the threat of ground firepower, the lowest-flying Stirling bomber was rough and thick-skinned. The two 12mm machine guns on the Japanese fighter jets would not be of much use against it. Moreover, the self-defense firepower of the Stirling bomber was also weak.
Not weak, the eight 12mm machine guns were enough to make all intercepting Japanese aircraft uncomfortable.
As for the B-17 and B-24 bombers, their powerful self-defense firepower and survivability caused many Japanese fighter jets to be shot down. The Japanese were still quite primitive at this time, and they still used their old-fashioned self-defense firepower to deal with the Chinese.
The tactics of weak bombers had a hard time dealing with these bombers who looked like fire hedgehogs.
Of the nine bombers shot down, only one was a Stirling bomber. The remaining eight were all old-fashioned Hewlett bombers with weak self-defense firepower. The B-17 and B-24 bombers were not shot down.
, and even shot down five Japanese Type II fighter jets in air battles.
Japanese pilots who were obviously inexperienced in dealing with heavy bombers with strong self-defense firepower suffered a lot when intercepting them in the air. No matter which direction they attacked, they had to face the dense self-defense firepower of the bomber group. Not only did it not work
It should have the effect, but it was shot down a lot.
During this battle, the Anti-Japanese Alliance launched its first coordinated attack on the Catalina seaplane, which was specially used to rescue pilots. On the west coast of Japan, most of the pilots who were shot down were rescued. The only regret was that they were returning home.
On landing, the fragile landing gear of five Stirling bombers broke.
Yang Zhen's tactic of removing wages from the cauldron, although the losses were not light. But the effect was also quite obvious. After this battle, along with the Nakajima Aircraft Company, which was responsible for the production of major aircraft for the Japanese Army, several of the largest factories were bombed into ruins. For a long time
Within a short period of time, the Japanese Army Air Force's aircraft replenishment was unusually slow.
Half a month after completing the bombing of Kobe, the Anti-Japanese Alliance once again concentrated forty-two B-24 bombers, all carrying high-explosive bombs with the maximum bomb load. After careful planning, they launched an attack on Hiroshima on the Seto Inland Sea.
A carpet bombing was carried out on Okuno Island in the waters of Takehara City, Prefecture.
Although Okunoshima is not well-known, it has the largest poison gas factory in the entire Japanese Army. It is the most important chemical weapons raw material production plant and research base since the Japanese army conducted chemical warfare research. Throughout World War II, this island
The poisonous gas produced by chemical weapons can destroy the entire Japan.
Since the July 7th Incident, 80% of the poisonous gas Japan has put into the battlefield in China was produced in this factory. If this island can be completely destroyed, it will fundamentally reduce the Japanese military's chemical warfare capabilities to a minimum.
, to the greatest extent possible, at least in a short period of time, to reduce the harm caused to the Chinese people by the large-scale poison gas warfare carried out by the Japanese army.
The Chinese are the only targets of the Japanese's poison gas. For countries like the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union, whose chemical industries and poison gas research and development capabilities far exceed those of the Japanese, the Japanese, who are always worried about retaliation, would not dare to do so under any circumstances.
Using poison gas.
In fact, during the entire World War II, the only targets of the chemical warfare launched by the Japanese were the Chinese, who basically had no ability to retaliate, and all Chinese troops. Poison gas has become a weapon used by the Japanese army when their offensive is unfavorable or when they are passively defensive.
A powerful weapon. The number of Chinese casualties suffered by Japanese poison gas bombs was in the tens of thousands.
Most of the poison gas shells, chimneys, chemical warfare agents and other raw materials used by the Japanese against China were produced on this island and then transported to the Sagami Arsenal for loading. If the poison gas factory on this island was wiped out
, which is equivalent to cutting off the food source for the Japanese army to manufacture chemical weapons.
Although blowing up this factory will not stop the Japanese army, which has accumulated a large amount of chemical weapons, from continuing to use poison gas on the Chinese battlefield, it will at least make the Japanese unable to produce and manufacture new chemical weapons for a long period of time.
This will make them unable to expand their already huge chemical weapons arsenal in a short period of time. To a certain extent, it will reduce the harm suffered by the Chinese people.
For this island, which can now be called Alcatraz Island, and the Devil's Processing Factory on the island, Yang Zhen included the first batch of Il-4 bombers that can carry out long-range bombing when they arrived in the Northeast.
A group of targets for air strikes against Japan. And they are listed at a level that must be destroyed.
In other words, this small island is definitely not ranked higher than the top three among Yang Zhen's air raid targets against Japan. It can even be said that this small island and the buildings on the island, as well as the final loading and production
The finished Sagami Arsenal. In the bombing order listed by Yang Zhen, this island is the top priority.
Its importance far exceeds that of Nakajima, Kawanishi, Mitsubishi and other aircraft manufacturing companies, Osaka Artillery Factory, Kokura Arsenal and other Japanese military production bases. Yang Zhen does not have an atomic bomb in his hands. If there is, he will