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On This Day: Thousands Die in Shelter During Japanese Bombing of Chongqing
by Haley A. Lovett
On June 5, 1941, bombing in China’s former capital sent thousands of residents fleeing to a bomb shelter, where they suffocated. The Chongqing massacre and other Japanese attacks would sour Sino-Japanese relations for decades.
Japanese Bombing of Chongqing Lasts Five Years
At the start of the second Sino-Japanese War in 1938, the Japanese began bombing China's new capital city of Chongqing (Chungking). During the five-year campaign, the Japanese killed an estimated 11,889 people, wounded 14,100 and destroyed 17,608 buildings, according to the Chongqing Municipal Government.
Chongqing had grown four times its pre-war size after becoming the new capital of China in 1938, but when the bombing began, many of the nearly 1 million citizens, unable to defend themselves, were forced into hiding as the only refuge from constant Japanese bombardment.
One of the worst bombings came on June 5, 1941, and lasted more than three hours. More than 2,500 Chongqing residents fled to shelter in one of the town center’s tunnels, the Jiaochangkou Tunnel. There they suffocated as they waited for the end of the assault.
The Japanese attack on Chongqing came three years after the massacre at Nanjing. Events like the “Rape of Nanjing” and the bombing of Chongqing set the stage for Japanese brutality and dominance over China, and caused decades of Sino-Japanese hostility.
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/May-June-08/On-this-Day--Japanese-Bombing-of-Chongqing-Kills-Thousands.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Chongqing
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by Haley A. Lovett
On June 5, 1941, bombing in China’s former capital sent thousands of residents fleeing to a bomb shelter, where they suffocated. The Chongqing massacre and other Japanese attacks would sour Sino-Japanese relations for decades.
Japanese Bombing of Chongqing Lasts Five Years
At the start of the second Sino-Japanese War in 1938, the Japanese began bombing China's new capital city of Chongqing (Chungking). During the five-year campaign, the Japanese killed an estimated 11,889 people, wounded 14,100 and destroyed 17,608 buildings, according to the Chongqing Municipal Government.
Chongqing had grown four times its pre-war size after becoming the new capital of China in 1938, but when the bombing began, many of the nearly 1 million citizens, unable to defend themselves, were forced into hiding as the only refuge from constant Japanese bombardment.
One of the worst bombings came on June 5, 1941, and lasted more than three hours. More than 2,500 Chongqing residents fled to shelter in one of the town center’s tunnels, the Jiaochangkou Tunnel. There they suffocated as they waited for the end of the assault.
The Japanese attack on Chongqing came three years after the massacre at Nanjing. Events like the “Rape of Nanjing” and the bombing of Chongqing set the stage for Japanese brutality and dominance over China, and caused decades of Sino-Japanese hostility.
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/May-June-08/On-this-Day--Japanese-Bombing-of-Chongqing-Kills-Thousands.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Chongqing
@ col mikel COL Mikel J. Burroughs @ ltc stephen LTC Stephen C. @ ltc stephen LTC Stephen F. @ ltc john LTC John Mohor @ ltc frank LTC (Join to see) @ capt tom Capt Tom Brown @ capt marty Maj Marty Hogan @ smsgt doc SMSgt Minister Gerald A. "Doc" Thomas @ sra christopher SrA Christopher Wright @ msg andrew MSG Andrew White @ sfc joe SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL @ sgt david SGT (Join to see) @ sgt david SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth @ sp5 robert SP5 Robert Ruck @ sp5 mark SP5 Mark Kuzinski SCPO Morris Ramsey @ po1 chip PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Alan K. Cynthia Croft @ po3 tom PO3 Tom Howard
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While many in the world forget what people in China suffered in WWII during the Japanese occupation from 1933 to 1945, many Chinese remember the Sino-Japanese Wars.
Some naively believe that Orientals are similar to each other and supportive of each nation. China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam have millennia-old animosity to each other SGT John " Mac " McConnell
Some naively believe that Orientals are similar to each other and supportive of each nation. China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam have millennia-old animosity to each other SGT John " Mac " McConnell
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Capt Dwayne Conyers
Anyone see the old British series, “Tenko” that dramatized the Japanese brutality during WWII?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081944/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081944/
Created by Lavinia Warner. With Ann Bell, Stephanie Cole, Claire Oberman, Emily Bolton. WWII drama follows a group of British, Dutch, and Australian women; from the bombing of Singapore to their years spent in prison camps and eventually to the end of the war where the survivors try to readjust to civilian life.
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell
Capt Dwayne Conyers - No I have not Capt Dwayne Conyers Now I am going look into it. Thanks..
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Great share SGT John " Mac " McConnell never really looked at the war from anyone else's perspective other than our own. Morning sir.
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My grandparents lived through this occupation of Chongqing. Even into the 1980s, my grandmother despised the Japanese and anything related to Japan.
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