Chapter 125: Recruitment and Nuclear (Request for Monthly Tickets and Subscriptions)

“For the propaganda work, emphasize the traditional relationship between Hanover and Britain, try to make the German citizens in the British-occupied areas understand that the British came over to help them, and abate the hostility of the Germans towards the occupation forces.”

“This whole thing could pull the other countries down, the French are going to annex the Saarland, the American POWs from the Rhine camps haven’t been released yet, and as for the Soviet Union we’ll just make it up and the Germans will believe anything. All the other countries are a puddle and it compares out to the British Empire as a gentleman.”

“Sir Edward has high hopes for our plans to restore Germany, risks and opportunities abound, gentlemen.”

“The British occupied zone is by the sea, roads and railroads and fishery resources have to be included in the plans first, the Military Council is equally worried about famine in Germany, we have to be ready for the winter. Coal production in the Ruhr must be resumed at once.”

“The large German enterprises in the Ruhr area, we will immediately organize men to go door to door to investigate, perhaps some of the owners have already been imprisoned, but production must continue. I’ll run this matter myself!”

Alan Wilson took the initiative and was prepared to walk all over the Ruhr to restore production in the British occupied zone, he had wanted to do this for a long time, having just arrived in Germany, he had hit on the idea of finding gold in the dung, he had only been delayed by trivialities like the Potsdam Conference.

“Administratively, our plan is to add the subdivisions of the Military Council of the British Occupied Territories to the members of the Board of Trade.”

“For the big cities our plan is to quell the rampant black market trade, and if we can’t do that for the moment, to clean up the city’s garbage first, which can be done with the help of the German soldiers who have already been released.”

“As for the trade plan, now immediately formulate a price list that is close to the reality of Germany, report it to London, and establish a trading system between British India and the British Occupied Territories and British India, Liaison Officer Allen has worked in British India, so take more trouble.”

Alan Wilson nodded, “I believe that with the support of many colleagues, the recovery of the British Occupied Territories will be astonishing, and this of course can not be left without the support of British India, we are in a group, although at opposite ends of the earth, but the heart to serve the British Empire is the same.”

Plans, plans, plans! Gentlemen attending the meeting of the Board of Trade, a mouthful of a plan to do this, plan to do that, do not know the people if they did not see the British Empire’s rice flag outside, the conference room in the middle of a mouthful of authentic London accent, a come in to see this scene, may think it is the Soviet Union Planning and Economic Committee to formulate the Five-Year Plan program.

If it is the Americans who come in, it may be surprised, is the British Empire has changed the color of the rivers and mountains?

And the civil servants of the British Empire, not the least bit evasive, simply as they should be, seemed to be no strangers to the tactics that had been carried forward by the Soviet Union.

Of course it’s not unfamiliar, the wartime system itself bears a resemblance, not to mention the fact that the new Prime Minister, Adderley, is himself a self-proclaimed socialist. Civil servants of course had to answer the call to remain in high alignment with the organization.

Has Britain ever had a planned economy? Of course it has. Not only has Britain practiced planned economy, but all European countries have basically practiced planned economy, where resources are allocated by the state, products are made by the state, and costs are set by the state.

In the case of the people, they were simply subject to the most extreme form of planned economy: rationing!

Now the British mainland is still rationing it, came to Germany British-occupied areas of civil servants, naturally just come over, took out no less than the Soviet Union’s planned economy committee of the professionalism of the restoration of Germany’s development to make a plan.

Americans that group of speculative cigarette peddlers, which know this high-end stuff, the British Occupation Zone meeting is just the tip of the iceberg, the real big move still have to the new Prime Minister Aidley, Aidley is ready to nationalize major industries, wait until the news came, it is the Americans shocked time.

Out of the Trade Commission headquarters, Alan Wilson pondered whether to first go to the port or to visit the headquarters of the famous German companies, as if both things are very important.

This side of Europe had begun to heal the wounds from the war, the world was far from calm. Japan, a member of the Axis powers, was still holding out, clamoring for a showdown on home soil.

The Soviet Red Army has already established itself in Hokkaido and has not been driven into the sea by the Japanese army. The Americans looked on with anxiety, the American soldiers were not as obedient as the Soviet soldiers, and the expected casualties were indeed unbearable.

Back in the United States, President Truman, after a discussion, finally decided to let the Japanese taste the latest achievements of the United States, but also to deter the Soviets, only really apply the nuclear bomb in the middle of the war, in order to let the Soviets calm down.

Conducting tests within their own country lacked a kind of shock, now let the Japanese fulfill this kind of shock.

“We cannot wait to press on with the occupation of the whole of Japan next year; once the Soviets put the flotillas they have acquired from Germany into the Far East, we will have to face the same situation as Germany, if not worse. That would be intolerable for the U.S. Japan and the U.S. have an unresolvable animosity, and if the whole world knew that Japan was the initiator of Pearl Harbor, only to have half of it split between the Soviets, the leadership the U.S. is trying to pursue would be gone.”

“Then in the eyes of people in other countries, the United States would be just an ordinary country with money but a weak military. Not even able to defeat an island nation, Japan, on its own, what qualifications does such a nation have to lead the world?”

Compared to the time in Potsdam, President Truman, who had already participated in important international conferences, had already seen a little change in his thinking, and had really begun to think with a broader mind.

“I know the Air Force is ready, activate it!” At the military meeting, Truman made his decision decisively.

The only possibility of forcing Japan to surrender was to rely on the nuclear bomb, a secret weapon that had just been introduced.

The nuclear bombs were dropped by the “509th Group”. For ten months, “Team 509” participated in air raids on Japanese cities, just like the other B-29 bombers at Tinian.

The difference was that they still carried only one bomb at a time and were required to maintain a certain altitude for each drop; as in previous training programs, they were required to have an accurate point of impact and to explode within visual range.

After the actual battle, they had greatly improved this technique and familiarized themselves with flying under complex weather conditions. At this point, there was only one man in the group who knew why this maneuver had to be rehearsed over and over again, and that was Colonel Tibbs, who led the group.

The first operational U.S. atomic bomb was assembled in four parts and transported to Tinian by three separate airplanes and a cruiser. It was to be dropped by a B-29 bomber with serial number eighty-two.

In the short time before the dropping of the bomb, for psychological or other reasons, the well-trained “509th Group” had a series of accidents in which four B-29s were damaged or completely destroyed during takeoffs and landings.

Receiving a telegram from home, Colonel Tibbs announced for the first time that the reason for the ten-month training of the “509th Group” was to drop a bomb on Japan, but not just any bomb, but a nuclear bomb with an energy equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT.

The B-29s would be piloted by Col. Tibbs, with the original pilot, Robert Lewis, as co-pilot.

None of the crew understands the construction of an atomic bomb, and the technical expert, Colonel Parsons, is instructed to fly at random, and in the event that he fails to complete the mission and is captured, Parsons shall immediately kill himself.

Even before the bomb was dropped, the Japanese Imperial Headquarters was happy to have contained the Soviet Hokkaido offensive.

The Soviets, who had swept across Europe, could not yet take advantage of the island nation of Japan, let alone the not particularly battle-hardened U.S. Army, which, once it landed, would surely be left with no bones left under the blows of the valiant Imperial soldiers and civilians.

Received the domestic military orders of the team members, know that the next action will go down in history, with unable to hold down the tension and excitement, the team members have boarded the plane, a few moments later, with a weight of up to five tons of nuclear bombs of the B-29 bomber pulls up to the ground, in a flash in the night sky disappeared into thin air.

Hiroshima is a city of the Army, where generations of Japanese soldiers have embarked from, the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and all the way up to the World Wars, where countless men and women of the Yamato nation have gone before and after to fight for the Japanese Empire.

As the headquarters of the Second Army of the Home Defense Force, Hiroshima has been under complete militarized management, the streets and alleys, plastered with slogans of seven lives to serve the country and fight to the death, at seven o’clock in the morning, the morning sun descended on the earth, and it could be seen that this was the beginning of a good weather, many Japanese people have come out of their homes, with a vegetable face, looking for anything suspicious of a fruitful stomach.

With overseas shipping being completely cut off, there was already a food shortage problem all over Japan, but in a time of national crisis, the Japanese people all over the country were still gritting their teeth and were psychologically prepared to fight to the death with the United States.

“Target Hiroshima!” On the B-29 bomber, Colonel Tibbs spoke the name of the city to be bombed.

As they got closer and closer to the target, the two that accompanied the escort could no longer continue on their journey, and the rest of the journey belonged to the B-29 bomber named Enoagaii. At 8:00 a.m., the Enoch Argayi was approaching Hiroshima.

Colonel Tibbs gave orders for all crew members to put on their aviation sunglasses to prevent their eyes from being burned by the intense bright light of the nuclear bomb.

At 8:16 a.m., the B-29 bomber Enoch Aguayi over Hiroshima, opened its bomb bay and the little boy landed with a smile on his face, then the Enoch Aguayi accelerated violently, evacuating Hiroshima as fast as it could.

A blinding light appeared in the sky above Hiroshima, and countless people in Hiroshima looked up with confusion, this was the last time they would ever see light in their lives, and it would be followed by endless darkness, and even if they survived afterward, their eyes would be permanently damaged.

What followed was a violent shockwave that rivaled any earthquake in history, and a huge mushroom cloud bloomed over Hiroshima.