The Chongqing Bombing was a five-and-a-half-year strategic bombing of Chongqing, the wartime capital of the Republic of China, from February 1938 to August 23 1943 during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period in China.
According to incomplete statistics, in five years, Japan bombed Chongqing twice18 times, dispatched more than 9,000 planes and dropped more than 500 bombs1/kloc-0.
The bombing in Chongqing caused more than 10000 deaths, more than 17600 houses were destroyed, and most downtown areas were destroyed. It is a famous strategic bombing in history after 1937, when the Germans bombed the civilians in guernica during the Spanish Civil War in April.
Diachronic background
1937 After the July 7th Incident, China launched a war against Japan. 165438+ 10, the national army lost in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and Nanjing was in crisis. The National Government moved to Chongqing as the wartime capital on June1937+065438+1October 20th.
19381October 4th, Japan bombed Chongqing. Since June 1939, Japanese air strikes have escalated rapidly, and the bombing of Chongqing has intensified.
Especially on the evening of June 5, 194 1, in the fatigue bombing of the urban area by Japanese planes for more than five hours, the tragedy with the largest number of indirect deaths due to bombing in World War II finally occurred, that is, the suffocation tragedy of Jiaochangkou large tunnel.
After the tragedy, most of the dead were young people. Some families were killed and the bodies were unclaimed; Some people only have a little property and don't know where to go. The engineering barracks sent by the air defense command spent nearly a day and night sorting out the bodies, then dragged them to the Chaotianmen River by truck, and then put them into the black stones in Jiangbei by wooden boats and buried them hastily.