So in April of 1942 and 18, the US military carried out "Operation Du Pu Zheng Su": they decided that the aircraft carrier formation "Bumblebee" would secretly sail to Japan, boldly put the bomber on the aircraft carrier with a crane, and then let the bomber take off from the aircraft carrier during the voyage to carry out air strikes on Tokyo, Yokohama, Kawasaki, Nagoya and Kobe in Japan.
However, the risk of doing so is extremely high, and the bomber's high probability is an action of "advance wave after wave". But the vengeful American army can't care so much! The scheduled plan is that after the bombing over Japan is completed, all bombers quickly turn southwest, fly to China at full speed, and land at Quzhou Airport in Zhejiang.
However, the plan couldn't keep up with the change: when the aircraft carrier formation arrived at 650 nautical miles from Japan, it encountered a Japanese patrol boat. However, although it sank within three minutes, I was still worried that an alarm would be issued. The original plan of taking off 400 miles from Japan had to be brought forward immediately.
So 16 American B-25 bomber took off from the aircraft carrier in an emergency. The takeoff point was 200 nautical miles more than originally planned, and it took hundreds of nautical miles to reach the landing point. The Japanese navy also failed to think of the American B25 bomber, and dared to take off from the aircraft carrier at ultra-low altitude to kill the Japanese mainland.
Therefore, the sudden US bomber group made Japan feel at a loss. Except for some sporadic anti-aircraft fire, 16 B-25 bombers successfully completed their respective bombing missions. But after the bombing, it was the beginning of a nightmare. In order to quickly avoid the coming Japanese fighters, all bombers flew to China as planned.
But at night, when there is still 160 kilometers from Chinese mainland, the weather becomes very bad, with dense fog and rain in Mao Mao, and the visibility on the plane is very low. Bad weather makes landing and communication conditions very poor. The bomber group has lost contact with the airport and can't land like headless flies.
Moreover, due to the early departure from the aircraft carrier, the fuel is about to run out, so the fleet commander Du Lite immediately ordered the plane to land independently along the coast of Zhejiang. Therefore, after the fuel is exhausted, these American pilots have to choose to land or skydive in advance over foreign countries.
In this way, the 16 plane landed in Vladivostok except the No.8 plane, and the other 15 planes landed in China respectively, while the five American pilots on No.8 plane were detained by the Soviet Union for a period of time (the Soviet Union had not declared war on Japan at that time) and were soon released.
In Jiangxi (including the border between Fujian and Jiangxi), five planes were forced to land: No.4, No.9, 13, 14, 16, of which five pilots of 16 were captured by the Japanese, and then two of them were brutally executed. Of the 75 pilots who arrived in Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, 3 were killed when landing, 8 were captured by the Japanese army, and 64 were rescued by local soldiers and civilians and safely transferred.
So far, all American pilots in the bomber group have been rescued except three killed and eight captured by the Japanese. Here, they want to really feel the local China soldiers and civilians. Many simple and kind people in China even paid the price of their lives to protect them.
Due to the language barrier between the two sides, these American pilots were unable to tell their identity when they were discovered by the locals. Even because many locals in China have never seen westerners, they thought they had met a "monster" at first. In the end, I knew nothing until I informed the local warden. I don't know if this looks like a "monster", but it is definitely not Japanese!
So at that time, the body language of both sides became the international language. American pilots will glare at the Japanese flag, make faces or break it with their fists, and grin or give a thumbs-up to China people, so that simple villagers will regard him as "one of their own".
As long as these American pilots are discovered by good people in China and confirmed not to be Japanese, they will be taken home without exception and treated with hospitality. Especially in enemy-occupied areas, you have to risk being searched by the Japanese army, and the whole family will suffer. It is also expected that these good people in China will be retaliated by the Japanese for rescuing American pilots, but they will never hesitate.
For example, the pilot Manchi, "probably the paratrooper with the most weapons in history". He carried two pistols, a rifle, a.22 caliber automatic gun, ammunition, a hunting knife, a double-edged dagger, an axe, and even stuffed a lot of chocolate bars into his shirt when parachuting.
Chen Yu, a local villager, first discovered this heavily armed "monster", so he rushed to the village and gathered a large number of villagers with birds and machetes to surround Manchi. Finally, it was the local Chang Bao and Jia Chang who arrived. The two sides did not start work, trying to confirm the identity of this "monster". Only after Manch made a face in front of the Japanese flag did the crowd know that he was a friendly soldier who jumped off the plane and fled.
Du commander Park Jung-soo was unlucky. When parachuting, because the rope on the co-pilot Cole's parachute was hooked by the seat, Doolittle delayed his time to untie the rope, so the last landing place of the two men was thousands of meters away from others.
Doolittle himself landed in the farmland of Shengjiafan, Baihe Town, Lin 'an County. After landing, he immediately saw a family not far from the west, so he went over and knocked at the door. He can only speak one Chinese word: "I am an American!" " But who would have thought that when the family heard the noise, they immediately turned off the lights and closed the door.
Doolittle continued to knock at the door, shouting. The more scared the family is in the middle of the night, the less they will open the door. Finally, doolittle had to go to a nearby mill to escape the wind and rain, so he spent the night. Early the next morning, Doolittle, who was out looking for a companion, was found by soldiers in the administrative office of western Zhejiang, almost causing accidental injury. Doolittle tried to explain that he was an American in Chinese, but the soldiers later found the parachute, so he immediately sent Du Pu Rongsu, who was covered in mud, to the administrative office in western Zhejiang.
After the story of bombing Japan spread, these American pilots who survived were regarded as heroes by the local people: "At that time, there were people in the local area, all vying to give them (pilots) quilts, clothes and food, and one family simply put a new quilt on the wounded."
The locals carried them in sedan chairs and continued to flee. It was spontaneous for China people to rescue American pilots. Although these American soldiers didn't know where they were at that time, they looked at many enthusiastic people in China and said they didn't understand but felt all the worries. These burly American soldiers were moved to tears in an instant.
On the other side of Japan, because Tokyo was bombed by American troops, the Japanese army naturally became angry from embarrassment, so these escaped pilots and the China soldiers and civilians who took them in were naturally their primary targets of revenge. Of the eight captured American pilots, one was tortured to death by the Japanese army and three were executed. The Japanese army also launched the Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign, destroyed the Quzhou airport in Zhejiang, and slaughtered 250,000 people along the way.
In the historical archives, there are also records of Changtai Town and clear lake Town in Jiangshan County, Quzhou. In retaliation for the local people, the Japanese army took in and escorted American pilots. 1942 recorded massacres in June, July and August. Many people were killed by the Japanese with machine guns, bayonets and rifles, and a 67-year-old woman was killed by the Japanese with a wooden stick! Another villager, Wu Fuxing, 8 1 year old, was burned alive by the Japanese army.
Chennault, the flying tiger general, once said in his memoirs: "In the retaliatory sweeping after Doolittle bombed Tokyo in early 1942, the Japanese clearly pointed out that anyone who assisted American pilots would not only be put to death, but also implicate their families and Garbo. Then during the war, there was not a conclusive example of China refusing to help Americans. "
Before arriving in Linhai, Rosen said to a Chinese rescuer: "When I was in the United States, I saw someone collecting money for the China Rescue Association on the street corner. I only donated a dime or two occasionally. I thought it was generous at that time! I felt very embarrassed after being rescued by China people this time. I just want to cry. Maybe I did cry! " China people smiled and told him, "Don't say that. No matter how little money is, it will be of great use. "
Later, these rescued American pilots came to China many times to express their gratitude and invited former rescuers to attend commemorative activities in the United States. 1990, an aviation investigation group from doolittle, USA, went to China to find the wreckage of the plane and rescue the China people of the pilot. They presented a "thank you card" signed by 44 rescued pilots. American Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Reagan all praised with emotion: The people of China are our benefactors!
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