Chapter 344 Japan's Surrender

At one o'clock in the morning on August 3, the wind blowing from the sea of the Pacific Ocean gradually dispersed the fog on Iwo Jima. The fishy sea breeze still seems to be blowing on the 30-meter-high stone cliff at the northern end of Iwo Jima. At the beginning of July 1944, only more than 1,000 officers and soldiers, more than 100 family members and more than 100 girls' middle school students on the island jumped into the sea on this cliff, of which 107 female middle school students were killed by more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers. The wind here still smells bloody, and it seems to remind every American soldier who stays here that they have experienced cruel battles here.

At Iwo Jima Airport, Colonel Tibates, the captain of the 509th Mixed Brigade of the U.S. Second Air Command, was a little nervous. He was doing a final inspection with the crew on a super air fortress B-29 plane parked at the airport. Today, he will carry out a sacred mission, and he will be accompanied by seven other B-29 bombers, accompanied by the 20th Air Brigade, who will go to Japan with him as a cover.

At 2:27 a.m., Colonel Tibates launched the plane, and his call came from the command tower: "Wine Vortex-82, call the command tower of North Tinian Airport, ready, please give a take-off order." Dimple-82 is the code name of this operation.

"Wine Vortex-82, the command tower of North Tinien Airport ordered to take off east along runway A." A response came from the command tower. Colonel Tibates pushed all the accelerators, and the plane began to run along and slowly began to taxi. At the end of the airport, when driving into the place, the plane suddenly flew slowly and began to enter the scheduled route.

The sound of the plane in the night sky was quickly submerged in the noise of the sea, and the people in the cabin felt relieved. Bob the tail gunner? Karen suddenly asked Colonel Tibett in front of him, "Hey, Colonel, are we going to drop the atomic bomb today?"

"Maybe! Bob!" Colonel Tibates said, and the two couldn't help smiling at each other.

At 7:35, the plane received the "Stret" for reconnaissance in Hiroshima. An important message from the reconnaissance aircraft "Flusi": the visibility over Hiroshima is good, the cloud coverage is less than 30%, the reconnaissance has not been intercepted by enemy fighters, and the anti-aircraft artillery is also very weak. It is recommended to give priority to Hiroshima. Then the aircraft that went to Kokura and Nagasaki for reconnaissance also sent back weather reports one after another: the weather conditions above the target are good and bombs can be dropped.

Colonel Tibates heard the news and conveyed him to the crew: "Guys, I have set a goal to bomb Hiroshima. This is our first goal. I will report our decision to the base!" No one has any objection. This is what he decided.

At 7:20 a.m., an air defense alert sounded over Hiroshima. But the citizens of Hiroshima have been indifferent to this kind of air raid alert. They seem to think that Americans don't care about the goal of Hiroshima. They don't even want to enter the bomb shelter, go to work or stay at home as usual, some people stand on the roof and look at the U.S. military planes, and some people curse the Americans loudly.

Tieberts on the plane felt depressed and his heart beat fast, but he restrained his emotions and slowly and solemnly announced to all the crew in the microphone: "We are ready to bomb Hiroshima. The recording equipment on board has been turned on. This is for historical recording. Please pay attention to your language."

Colonel Parsons, a random technician who is proficient in the internal structure of the atomic bomb and responsible for dropping the bomb, immediately unscrewed a green screw from the atomic bomb, and then skillfully tightened an almost identical metal screw. The last circuit was connected, and the atomic bomb had entered the throwing. Status. He shouted at Tibates, "Ready, fire at any time!"

Coloe Tibates said word by word into the microphone, "We are about to drop the world's first atomic bomb."

At 8:15, with Tibates' order, the bomb hatch opened automatically, the atomic bomb fell, and the warhead pointed to the target. After a slight pause, everyone in the crew was quietly waiting for the moment of the atomic bomb explosion. Their hearts seemed to be pinched hard by the palms of their hands, which made people a little breathless. They all put on shields, and the heavy breathing still came out loudly.

Suddenly, a very dazzling white light lit up the whole plane, and a huge round fireball rose into the air, and then expanded sharply, forming a huge mushroom cloud.

"Hit the target, hit the target, according to our observation, the effect is good. After dropping the bomb, the plane is normal and now returns to the base. Tibates' heart suddenly relaxed. After a 12-hour flight, Colonel Tibates returned to the airport safely with his fleet.

The atomic bomb codenamed "Little Boy" was dropped three days ahead of history, but the results he brought remained unchanged, and Hiroshima turned into a sea of fire in an instant. All 12 square kilometers of buildings in the city center were destroyed, more than 70% of houses were destroyed, more than 70,000 people were killed and missing, and more than 100,000 people were injured.

At the Pacific Theater Command, everyone was waiting for the final result. Suddenly, a person in charge of contact raised his hands and cheered loudly. He shouted at each of them, "Successful, dimple-82 operation is successful, hit the target!" Suddenly, there were warm applause and cheers in the headquarters, and everyone was cheering for the victory of the operation. Obviously, this weapon will greatly accelerate the speed of my defeat, and it is also MacArthur who took the initiative to win from Spatz, the commander of the U.S. Strategic Air Force, at great pressure. Even if he fights for one more day earlier, it will bring good news to the personnel of his rescue operation.

At this time, MacArthur could no longer hide the smile on his face. He walked to the map and looked at it quietly, ignoring the cheers in the headquarters. He just sighed: "I have done my best. May God bless you, General Wwright, my old man. "!" With that, he slowly turned around and quietly left the headquarters, a place full of boiling enthusiasm.

Sixteen hours later, U.S. President Truman issued a statement to the world, claiming that the United States had used an atomic bomb against Japan, which was equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. If Japan still does not accept the conditions of the United States, a torrent of destruction that has never been seen before will fall from the sky, and a destruction attack that has never been seen on earth will come to Japan. And once again, the content of the Potsdam Proclamation was reiterated. The next day, all major cities saw the People's Book printed with Truman's speech on American planes.

On the evening of August 5, the People's Committee for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union in Moscow urgently summoned Japanese Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Masatake Sato. In the main office of the committee, Molotov, Minister of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, submitted the "Declaration of the Soviet Union to the State of War" on behalf of the Soviet Union.

"This is a robbery by fire! This violates the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty we signed. The validity period of the treaty we signed is still 12 months, which is unfair!" Sato Naotake ignored his image, and he roared in a low voice at Molotov. But he knew that he was just humiliating himself, but he didn't care at all. He was doomed to failure at this moment, and the Soviets might launch a large-scale attack on the Kwantung Army in Northeast China.

"Mr. Sato, the United States, the United Kingdom and China asked the Japanese armed forces to surrender unconditionally on July 26, but they have been rejected by you. It can be seen that your proposal to the Soviet Union to mediate the Far East war has lost all basis. The Soviet political axe will be loyal to its obligations to its allies and announce that it will participate in the announcement of the Allies on July 26, that is to say, from tomorrow, August 6th, the Soviet political axe will think that it is in a state of war. With that, he still put the declaration on Sato, who had collapsed on the ground, and said with a disgusted expression, "This is immutable, Mr. Sato, I hope you don't let me ask the guards to send you back."

"It's over, it's all over!" Sato Shangwu picked up the declaration of war in a daze, got up from the ground, and walked out dejectedly. He walked very slowly. He just wanted this road to become very long, and he could go on forever without stopping.

On August 6, the three fronts of the Soviet army launched an attack on the east, west and north of Manchuria at the same time, thus kicking off the "Operation August Storm". Due to the wrong estimate of the battlefield situation, I thought that the Soviet Union would participate in the war in October, so in the first 18 hours after the war, the Japanese generals could hardly make efficient command, and the communication between the troops and the headquarters also had problems. In addition, the Red Army used transport aircraft to airship teams to airports and city centers of all sizes, and provided supplies to troops beyond the land supply line through the air force. Under the land and air attack of the Red Army, the Japanese army had no power to fight.

On August 5, the crew led by Colonel Swayney of the 509th Mixed Brigade of the U.S. Strategic Air Force once again came over the local Xiaocang. Today's visibility was as clear as before. The fog was blown away by the sea breeze early, and the visibility was very high. But he was shot by dense anti-aircraft fire on the ground of Kokura, and Colonel Swayney had to change his target and fly to Nagasaki. At 10:58, the atomic bomb "Fat" left the plane and fell towards Nagasaki.

It boiled in a sea of fire, killing 70,000 people and injuring more than 60,000. The equivalent of the fat man is larger than that of the boy, but Ogura is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the loss is a little weaker than that of Hiroshima.

On August 11, the Soviet army quickly defeated the Kwantung Army and Manchuria with a highly mechanized absolute advantage [***]. Yamada Yisan, the commander of the Kwantung Army, ordered the Japanese army in the Manchurian area and north of the 38th parallel of North Korea to disarm and stop fighting.

On August 12, Emperor Hirohito read the edict of the end of the war on the radio, announcing that he would surrender unconditionally and start a ceasefire the next day. The radio wave quickly spread all over the world. The Soviet army and the U.S. [***] team accelerated the occupation of the Japanese army. Both countries were fighting for the occupation of the Japanese occupation area. This was a crazy act of grabbing territory.

Parks learned about this on August 13. The news was transmitted by the intelligence personnel of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in Shenyang, but the Japanese army here did not surrender. They continued to occupy Shenyang and nearby major cities.

"Dog said, the emperor of the little devil has announced his surrender. Why don't they put down their weapons?" Guo Dahai once again delivered a batch of materials for Parks. This batch of materials was very easy to transport. There was no surveillance by the Japanese army around them. They retreated from all the surrounding places overnight into the main cities and shrank and watched the change. Guo Dahai is just in prison now, and now the Eighth Route Army is out of reach of these places, although they have launched a major counterattack order and began to fight with the Kuomintang for territory.

Parks just smiled at Zhang Hai's complaint. After getting along with each other these days, he is still relatively satisfied with the other party. Although there are not many supplies every time, it solves Parks' urgent needs.

After Zhang Dahai left full of suffocre, Parks immediately returned to the station and said to the oncoming Welsh captain, "Let Luz come here immediately!" We need to contact the Pacific Command. I surrendered. Just yesterday, their emperor announced that he had surrendered unconditionally! Harry, we finally waited for the time to go home!"

"God!" Captain Wales suddenly smiled, turned his head and shouted over there, "George, hurry up, come here, there's something to do here. Hurry up, hurry up!"

Luz threw it at the two people with the radio on his back. He quickly set up the radio station, and then said to Parks, "Sir, tell me, what should I do!"

"Contact the hailing aircraft carrier fleet Yorktown in the Pacific Theater immediately. The mission is successful and ask for support!" Parks ordered quickly, then patted Luz's face and said with a smile, "I surrendered, man, the war is over. We can leave this place!" With that, he nodded to Wales and then walked towards the generals, which was good news for all the soldiers and generals who had been brought in the prisoner-of-war camp. And it is also very good news for the brothers of the assault company. After so many nights, they can finally complete the task and leave safely. In this operation, only a few of them were slightly injured. But it was almost a miracle that he successfully saved more than 1,500 Allied prisoners and more than 40 generals, governors and justices! This will be the most successful rescue mission in the history of the U.S. military, far more than the rescue of the Philippines.

"God!" When Brigadier General Willoughby received the telegram, he couldn't help opening his eyes wide, and then there was a burst of ecstasy. For so many days, he was under the great pressure of General MacArthur to wait for such a message. The message was sent by the York City aircraft carrier fleet. They have confirmed that the assault company participating in the rescue mission is near Liaoyuan City, more than 200 kilometers away from Shenyang, China, and they have successfully rescued more than 40 generals and governors and other senior generals and personnel, and also rescued 1,500 prisoners of war camps in Shenyang. More than a hundred Allied soldiers, this is incredible.

"I want to report this news to the general in person!" He waved the message excitedly, and then quickly walked towards General MacArthur's office. He could finally get rid of these pressures. Now that he has surrendered, that is to say, their rescued personnel and company members can return safely.

"General!" Brigadier General Willoughby opened the door of General MacArthur's office, and General MacArthur was looking at the map. He didn't seem to hear that Willoughby pushed the door in, and the orderly who opened the door for Willoughby told him not to interrupt the general's thinking. So Willoughby stood quietly and waited.

After a quarter of an hour, MacArthur turned his head and looked at Willoughby and smiled, "Please sit down, Willoughby. It seems that you are bringing me good news today, right?" With that, he sat in a chair easily, and then motioned Willoughby to sit next to him. "Is there any news about the Commando and General Wainwright?"

"Yes, General!" Willoughby took out the message with a smile and handed it to General MacArthur, "This is the latest message. I got it here as soon as possible!" They are all safe!"

At this time, MacArthur breathed a long breath and said, "Thank God!" Then he was a little silent, and Willoughby did not dare to make a sound, but just looked at him.

For a long time, MacArthur nodded to him and said, "The Japanese army in the Chinese war zone has not completely surrendered. The Russians are desperately moving towards the northeast of China. They immediately telegram to Major Parks. Don't act rashly. At the same time, send people to contact the Russians and ask them to speed up their march. We want to be in them. After occupying Shenyang, General Wainwright and the commandos were sent to us as soon as possible. No, send a plane to pick up General Wiwright first. I want him to attend my surrender ceremony. The commandos and other personnel arranged to take the train to Yucheng, where we arranged for a transport ship to transport them back to China! Their mission is over, and the war is over!" After saying all this, he seemed to suddenly become very tired. He leaned against the chair and lit the corn pipe. The smoke enveloped his sky, like a fog, which could not disperse for a long time!

Major Parks received an order to stand by and wait for further instructions, which is also in line with his current idea. Before he received the telegram, Zhang Dahai asked him to meet in the old place and made a request to occupy Liaoyuan City before the Soviets occupied Liaoyuan, and to hand over the management of Liaoyuan City to GD, and proposed that as long as he occupied Liaoyuan, he would find a way to send all of them out.

Obviously, this is to use Parks to seize a stronghold near Shenyang in front of the Soviet Union and the Kuomintang, and then radiate from this stronghold to the surroundings. At the same time, they increased their march until they took over the whole northeast region. Parks is not interested in participating in these things at all, not to mention that he has no benefit at all. He said that he will go back sooner or later. There is no need to risk the lives of his brothers! He knows what the cost of attacking the city is! Of course, it can't be Zhang Dahai who came up with this method, but his senior officials. But Parks may let them down this time!

Luz has received a callback from the Pacific Command. He raised his hands excitedly, then shouted "God" loudly, and told the news loudly to the people around him. Soon the news was known to everyone, and the whole stronghold sounded. Cheers, everyone hugged each other, burst into tears, and they could go home! At this moment, they have been waiting for more than three years, too long!

(to be continued)