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1. The bombing of Tokyo, 1945. Two US nuclear bombs account for only about 3% of all damage caused to Japan by non-nuclear air forces.
2. The blow of the kamikaze (yap «divine wind» – the common name of suicide pilots) for one of the US aircraft carriers. Losses are not as serious as one would expect – eight team members were killed, 11 planes lost, a hole in the deck was formed 3 meters long, 0.6 meters wide. In a winged car, 100 or 250 kg. The explosive, plus the kinetic energy of the fall. Not finding the goal, in principle, the pilots can still return to the base. One kamikaze (kaitensa) was taken out of the squadron of suicides after the ninth such return. Not all pilots are equally easily ready to part with life – some of them, staggering from nervous overstrain, were pushed into the cabins by soldiers of the maintenance group.
3. Yorktown. The aircraft carriers of the Yorktown type were laid in the mid-1930s, they have a displacement of 20,000—25,000 tons, a length of 250 meters, a width of 34 meters, a draft of 8 meters. Reserving is a belt at the waterline of 100 mm., A deck of 40 mm. The maximum speed is 50 km. h, the range of navigation without refueling 20 000 km., the crew of 2170 people, the air group of 96 aircraft.
4. Attacked «Yorktown.»
5. Pushed to Pearl Harbor «Yorktown».
6. Japanese aircraft carrier «Hiryu», in translation «Flying dragon». Year of foundation – 1936, displacement 20 000 tons, length 227 meters, width 22 m, draft 8 m. Booking – belt 50—140 mm, deck 25 – 55 mm. The maximum speed is 50 km. h. The range is 19 thousand km., the crew is 1100 people, the air group is 63 aircraft. Protective armament – six double 127 mm. anti-aircraft guns, 31 barrel 25-mm. anti-aircraft guns.
7. Smooth-decked vianos «Kaga» (from «Kaga province»). Displacement 44 000 tons, length 248 m, width 33 m, draft 10 m. Booking – 150 mm. bead, 40 mm. deck. The maximum speed is 45 km. h. The range of navigation is 18 000 km. Crew 2 000 people. Air group 75 aircraft.
8. Heavy cruiser «Mikuma» after the bombing.
9. The Japanese fighter Zero. The name is from «0» – the last digit of the year of release, 1940, coinciding with 2600 in its own Japanese calendar.
The product of the firm «Mitsubishi», the designer is Dziro Khorikoshi. First of all, the developer had to make the airframe as easy as possible. The available propulsion systems at that time did not allow to give out the required specific power with the heavier armor apparatus, and anything else similar at all. New, very expensive aluminum alloys (zinc, magnesium) partially solve this problem.
Be that as it may, the loss of the pilots due to lack of booking (even armored pins), as well as the principal refusal of pilots to take parachutes for combat missions, leads the Air Force of the Empire to a decline in the literal sense of the word. Very quickly, recovering from the first losses, the Americans reorient the industry from the production of luxury goods to the production of a variety of military products. The pilots do not disdain parachutes, and are quite satisfied with their armor protecting them. In the end, a country fully aware of the value of its citizens’ lives wins this war with an acceptable loss ratio.
The takeoff weight of the car is 2400 kg, the engine power is 940—1100 hp, the maximum speed is 560 km. h, practical range (very high for its time) 1600 km. Armament – two 20 mm. guns, two 7.7 mm. machine gun (in some cases 13.2 mm machine guns were used), 120 kg. bom load. From 1940 to 1945, 11,000 cars were produced.
The main competitor of Zero at the initial stage of the war was American P-40 Curtiss. The curb weight is 3800 kg., The engine is 1150 hp, the cruising speed is 440, the maximum speed is 580 km. h. (when diving). Armament – six 12.7 mm. machine guns. The bomb load is 680 kg. The range of flight is 1100 km. With all this, the P-40 significantly lose the «Zero» in maneuverability and ripeness.
10. American dive-bomber «Dontless» («Fearless»), he is also «Banshee» («The Witch»), the most productive airplane of the War on the Ocean. Crew 2 people, takeoff weight 4 300 kg., Maximum speed 410 km. h, the flight range is 1200 km. Armament – two coursework 12.7 mm. machine gun, double 7.62 mm. a machine gun of the rear turret, a bomb load of a ton.
11. P-40 «Curtiss», until 1942 – the basis of US fighter aviation in the Pacific. In the United States, Air Force aircraft that have served their time can be bought out at an affordable price by private individuals. That is why history there is preserved for many and many future generations. In the USSR-Russia, deserved military equipment is usually destroyed.
The Soviet Union against Japan. War on the Continent
The USSR enters the war against Japan on August 8, two days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and on the eve of the bombing of Nagasaki; Whether this is a coincidence or not is unknown. The document on declaring war was handed to the Japanese Ambassador on August 8 at 18:00; given the difference in the time zone, the Japanese military had an hour to prepare.
Alas, from the USSR there is no ultimatum, no claims, justification of entering the war (initially the conflict between Japan and the US, even officially, in the world media, has ripened as the protection of the people of China), so, let’s say, looking a little forward, the victory did not bring us, friends, significant bonuses. The main motive presented in the history textbooks is rather strange: «True to the allied duty, the USSR declared war on Japan.»
It is not completely clear at the same time, when, and to whom Russia has managed to owe.
Combat operations are conducted in the territories of Manchuria and Mongolia, the territories of China, captured by the Japanese, North Korea and Southern Sakhalin. The forces of the parties: the USSR – 1, 7 million soldiers, 1,850 self-propelled guns, 3,700 tanks, 5,400 aircraft. The Kwantung Army: 710,000 actually, the Japanese and 200,000 soldiers of the quasi-states created by Japan, 1,000 light tanks, and 1,800 aircraft. The Soviet Army is conducting encirclement of enemy troops on the territory of 1.5 million kilometers; landing airborne assault in Harbin and a dozen other cities. Marshal Vasilevsky gives the order to land in Hokkaido, Japan’s second largest island, but, according to Stalin’s order, the operation is canceled. From August 18 to September 5, fighting with the 80 thousandth garrison of the Kuril Islands (200 paratroopers are dying), September 10, the Kwantung Army will capitulate. Losses of the USSR: 12,000 people killed, 80 tanks, 65 aircraft, Japan – 84,000 killed, 640,000 taken prisoner.
On board the battleship «Missouri», on September 5, representatives of Japan sign a separate peace with the United States.
According to the San Francisco Peace Treaty concluded in 1951, Japan renounced its claims to Sakhalin (Karafuto) and the Kurila (Tisima Ratto), however, according to a unilateral resolution of the United States, the USSR did not receive formal rights to these territories. De jure, the Southern Kuriles were ceded by the tsarist government of Japan in 1875 (the St. Petersburg Treaty) in exchange for full ownership of Sakhalin. In 1956, at the time
